verb
- To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
- To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
- To yearn intensely.
- To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
- To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
- To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
- To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
- (of a machine) To stop working, to break down.
- (of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
- 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.
- 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) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
Synonyms: be no more, bite the big one, bite the dust, buy the farm, cease to be, check out, cross over, cross the river, expire, give up the ghost, go to meet one's maker, hop off the twig, join the choir invisible, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, pass on, push up the daisies, shuffle off this mortal coil, stiff, succumb
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.
- (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.
noun
- A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.
- Any hue, color, or blee.
Synonyms: colourant, tincture
verb
- To colour with dye, or as if with dye.
Synonyms: shade, stain, streak, tint
Pronunciation
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