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How to pronounce “die”
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Pronunciation guide for die
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of die with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Why Thinking About Death Helps You Live a Better Life
I want to die at sunset.
- Definition summary
- (intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce die
Why Thinking About Death Helps You Live a Better Life

I want to die at sunset.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “die”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
- (transitive) To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
- (video games, slang) To lose or be eliminated from a game, particularly with a deathlike animation.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To yearn intensely.
- (intransitive, uncommon, idiomatic) To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
- (intransitive, colloquial, hyperbolic) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
- (intransitive, figurative, hyperbolic) To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
- (intransitive, of a machine) To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality".
- (intransitive, of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
- (intransitive, of a legislative bill or resolution) To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote.
- To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
- To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
- (often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
- (architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
- To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
- (of a stand-up comedian or a joke, slang) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
- [Noun]
- The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.
- A device for cutting into a specified shape.
- A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
- A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
- An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
- (semiconductors, plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
- Any small cubical or square body.
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