Definition of died

"died" in the verb sense

1. die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it

pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

"She died from cancer"

"The children perished in the fire"

"The patient went peacefully"

"The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"

2. die

suffer or face the pain of death

"Martyrs may die every day for their faith"

3. die

be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame

"I was dying with embarrassment when my little lie was discovered"

"We almost died laughing during the show"

4. fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down

stop operating or functioning

"The engine finally went"

"The car died on the road"

"The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"

"The coffee maker broke"

"The engine failed on the way to town"

"her eyesight went after the accident"

5. die

feel indifferent towards

"She died to worldly things and eventually entered a monastery"

6. die

languish as with love or desire

"She dying for a cigarette"

"I was dying to leave"

7. die, die out

cut or shape with a die

"Die out leather for belts"

8. die

to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player

9. die, pall, become flat

lose sparkle or bouquet

"wine and beer can pall"

10. die

disappear or come to an end

"Their anger died"

"My secret will die with me!"

11. die

suffer spiritual death be damned (in the religious sense

"Whosoever..believes in me shall never die"

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Quotations for died

Here lies the body of Ann Mann,
Who lived an old woman,
And died an old Mann. [ Epitaph ]

O, though oft oppressed and lonely,
All my fears are laid aside,
If I but remember only
Such as these have lived and died! [ Longfellow ]

How calm - how beautiful comes on
The stilly hour, when storms have gone,
When warring winds have died away
And clouds, beneath the dancing ray
Melt off and leave the land and sea,
Sleeping in bright tranquillity. [ Moore ]

Of no distemper, of no blast he died
But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long. [ Dryden ]

He lives in fame, that died in virtue's cause. [ William Shakespeare ]

What millions died that Caesar might be great! [ Campbell ]

Plain dealing is dead, and died without issue. [ Proverb ]

Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall. [ Homer ]

What! are you afraid of him that died last year? [ Proverb ]

He that died half a year ago is as dead as Adam. [ Proverb ]

If Socrates died like a sage, Jesus died like a God. [ Rousseau ]

Let us weep in our darkness - but weep not for him!
Not for him - who, departing, leaves millions in tears!
Not for him - who has died full of honor and years!
Not for him - who ascended Fame's ladder so high.
From the round at the top he has stepped to the sky. [ N. P. Willis ]

The heathens when they died, went to bed without a candle. [ Proverb ]

Pylades and Orestes died long ago, and left no successors. [ Proverb ]

We thought her dying while she slept, and sleeping when she died. [ Hood ]

How many have died without having given even one kiss to their chimera! [ T. Gautier ]

The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago.
And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow;
But on the hills the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood,
And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood.
Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men.
And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland glade and glen. [ Bryant ]

Steve McQueen looks good in this movie. He must have made it before he died. [ Yogi Berra ]

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. [ William Shakespeare ]

If some men died and others did not, death would indeed be a most mortifying evil. [ Bruyere ]

If the true did not possess an objective value, human curiosity would have died out centuries ago. [ Renan ]

Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Of yore, they languished, they burned, they died for love; today, they chat about it, they make it, and, more often, they buy it. [ Jouy ]

Poetry is music in words, and music is poetry in sound: both excellent sauce, but they have lived and died poor, that made them their meat. [ Fuller ]

Even He that died for us upon the cross, in the last hour, in the unutterable agony of death, was mindful of His mother, as if to teach us that this holy love should be our last worldly thought - the last point of earth from which the soul should take its flight for heaven. [ Longfellow ]

A blushing young damsel of 109 has just died at Mallow, Ireland. She had been an ardent smoker of twist tobacco for 81 years, and finally died in the bloom of her youth. To make matters worse, she was an orphan. Those who do not wish to die young should make a note of this. [ Tobacco Jokes For Smoking Folks, 1888 ]

Columbus died in utter ignorance of the true nature of his discovery. He supposed he had found India, but never knew how strangely God had used him. So God piloted the fleet. The great discoverer, with all his heroic virtues, did not know whither he went. He sailed for the back door of Asia, and landed at the front door of America, and knew it not. He never settled the continent. Thus far and no farther, said the Lord. His providence was over all. [ David James Burrell ]

died in Scrabble®

The word died is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

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died in Words With Friends™

The word died is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters died:

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Word Growth involving died

Shorter words in died

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Longer words containing died

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bodied dogsbodied

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