资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Die \Die\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Died}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dying}.]
   [OE. deyen, dien, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. deyja; akin to
   Dan. d["o]e, Sw. d["o], Goth. diwan (cf. Goth. afd?jan to
   harass), OFries. d?ia to kill, OS. doian to die, OHG. touwen,
   OSlav. daviti to choke, Lith. dovyti to torment. Cf. {Dead},
   {Death}.]
   1. To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to
      live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of
      the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish;
      -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by,
      with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion
      of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by
      fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought.

            To die by the roadside of grief and hunger.
                                                  --Macaulay.

            She will die from want of care.       --Tennyson.

   2. To suffer death; to lose life.

            In due time Christ died for the ungodly. --Rom. v.
                                                  6.

   3. To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or
      extinct; to be extinguished.

            Letting the secret die within his own breast.
                                                  --Spectator.

            Great deeds can not die.              --Tennyson.

   4. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness,
      discouragement, love, etc.

            His heart died within, and he became as a stone. --1
                                                  Sam. xxv. 37.

            The young men acknowledged, in love letters, that
            they died for Rebecca.                --Tatler.

   5. To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die
      to pleasure or to sin.

   6. To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to
      vanish; -- often with out or away.

            Blemishes may die away and disappear amidst the
            brightness.                           --Spectator.

   7. (Arch.) To disappear gradually in another surface, as
      where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.

   8. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.

   {To die in the last ditch}, to fight till death; to die
      rather than surrender.

            ``There is one certain way,'' replied the Prince
            [William of Orange] `` by which I can be sure never
            to see my country's ruin, -- I will die in the last
            ditch.''                              --Hume (Hist.
                                                  of Eng. ).

   {To die out}, to cease gradually; as, the prejudice has died
      out.

   Syn: To expire; decease; perish; depart; vanish.