Verb

To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.

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#* 1839 , Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist , Penguin 1985, page 87:

"What did she die of, Work'us?" said Noah. "Of a broken heart, some of our old nurses told me," replied Oliver.

#* 2000 , Stephen King, On Writing , Pocket Books 2002, page 85:

In 1971 or 72, Mom's sister Carolyn Weimer died of breast cancer.

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#* 1865 , British Medical Journal , 4 Mar 1865, page 213:

She lived several weeks; but afterwards she died from epilepsy, to which malady she had been previously subject.

#* 2007 , Frank Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, Sandworms of Dune , Tor 2007, page 191:

"Or all of them will die from the plague. Even if most of the candidates succumb. . ."

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#* 1961 , Joseph Heller, Catch-22 , Simon & Schuster 1999, page 232:

Englishmen are dying' for England, Americans are '''dying''' for America, Germans are '''dying''' for Germany, Russians are ' dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war.

#* 2003 , Tara Herivel & Paul Wright (editors), Prison Nation , Routledge 2003, page 187:

Less than three days later, Johnson lapsed into a coma in his jail cell and died for lack of insulin.

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#* 1600 , William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing , Act III, Scene I:

Therefore let Benedicke like covered fire, / Consume away in sighes, waste inwardly: / It were a better death, to die' with mockes, / Which is as bad as ' die with tickling.

#* 1830 , Joseph Smith, The Book of Mormon , Richards 1854, page 337:

And there were some who died with fevers, which at some seasons of the year was very frequent in the land.

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She died with dignity.

To stop living and undergo (a specified death).

He died a hero's death.

They died a thousand deaths.

(figuratively) To yearn intensely.

* 1598 , (Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing), Act III, Scene II:

Yes, and his ill conditions; and in despite of all, dies for him.

* 2004 Paul Joseph Draus, Consumed in the city: observing tuberculosis at century's end - Page 168

I could see that he was dying, dying' for a cigarette, '''dying''' for a fix maybe, ' dying for a little bit of freedom, but trapped in a hospital bed and a sick body.

(idiomatic) To be utterly cut off by family or friends, as if dead.

The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother.

(figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.

He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him.

(colloquial) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.

If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die .

(intransitive, of a, machine) to stop working, to break down.

My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning.

(intransitive, of a, computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).

To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.

* Spectator

letting the secret die within his own breast

* Tennyson

Great deeds cannot die .

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

* Bible, 1 Samuel xxv. 37

His heart died within, and he became as a stone.

To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.

to die to pleasure or to sin

(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) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.

Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal...

Verb

(label) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

The watchful traveller / Lay down again, and closed his weary eyes.

* 1849 , (Henry David Thoreau), (A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers)

Our uninquiring corpses lie more low / Than our life's curiosity doth go.

* {{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)

, chapter=5, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.}}

(label) To be placed or situated.

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Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.}}

To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.

To be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist; used with in .

* (Arthur Collier) (1680-1732)

Envy lies between beings equal in nature, though unequal in circumstances.

* (John Locke) (1632-1705)

He that thinks that diversion may not lie in hard labour, forgets the early rising and hard riding of huntsmen.

(label) To lodge; to sleep.

* (John Evelyn) (1620-1706)

While I was now trifling at home, I saw London, where I lay one night only.

* (Charles Dickens) (1812-1870)

Mr. Quinion lay at our house that night.

To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

The wind is loud and will not lie .

(label) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.

* Ch. J. Parsons

An appeal lies in this case.

Verb

To give false information intentionally.

When Pinocchio lies , his nose grows.

If you are found to have lied in court, you could face a penalty.

While a principle-based approach might claim that lying''' is always morally wrong, the casuist would argue that, depending upon the details of the case, '''lying''' might or might not be illegal or unethical. The casuist might conclude that a person is wrong to '''lie''' in legal testimony under oath, but might argue that '''lying actually is the best moral choice if the lie saves a life. ^(w)

To convey a false image or impression.

Photos often lie .

Hips don't lie .