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# die

«die» in Mova's school dictionary: **to stop living** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (die, dice); verb (die, dies, died, dying)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To die means to stop living. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/die/#m1)

2) A die is one small cube with dots from 1 to 6, used in games. A die has 6 faces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/die/#m2)

3) To be dying to do something means to want it very much. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/die/#m3)

4) To die down is to become weaker, like a fire or wind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/die/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

maths: a cube with numbers 1 to 6 for rolls and chances; as a verb, plants or animals that die are taken away (subtract); science: life cycles, all living things die; plants die without water; stories: sad parts when a pet dies; phrases: «die down», «dying to»

### examples

- Roll a die and get a 6. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/die/#x1)
- A die has 6 faces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/die/#x2)
- 4 of the 20 fish died. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/die/#x3)
- How many plants are left if 3 died? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/die/#x4)
- Plants die without water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/die/#x5)
- The wind died down at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/die/#x6)
- Our old cat died last year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/die/#x7)
- I'm dying to see the new film. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/die/#x8)
- Horseflesh; he died of eating horseflesh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/die/#x9)

### note

As a cube it fixes the numbers 1 to 6; as «died» it means subtract. Trap: the plural of the game piece is «dice». «Dying» (stopping living) is not «dyeing» (colouring cloth).

### In the corpora

- [An inheritance is money or belongings left by someone who has died, as written in their will.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/13/)
- [Remarrying means marrying again after a divorce or after a husband or wife has died.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/15/)
- [An older person who finds a new partner after losing a husband or wife has not forgotten the one who died.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/18/)
- [A miscarriage is when a baby stops growing and dies early in pregnancy; it happens quite often and is nobody's fault.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/18/)
- [Every living thing dies one day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «die» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/die/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.