Verb

(en-verb)

To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.

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(label) To divide; to separate.

# To separate (precious metal etc.) from the ore by melting; to purify, refine.

#* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.vii:

euery feend his busie paines applide, / To melt the golden metall, ready to be tride .

# (label) To winnow; to sift; to pick out; frequently followed by out .

To test, to work out.

# To make an experiment. Usually followed by a present participle.

# To put to test.

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#* 1922 , , Miss Mapp , :

“So mousie shall only find tins on the floor now,” thought Miss Mapp. “Mousie shall try his teeth on tins.”

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# To taste, sample, etc.

# To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test.

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Let the end try the man.

# To put on trial.

#* 1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , Chapter I

The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence.

To experiment, to strive.

# To have or gain knowledge of by experience.

#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

Try the Libyan heat or Scythian cold.

(Milton)

# To work on something.

# (label) To do; to fare.

# To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms.

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Left I the court, to see this quarrel tried .

(label) To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.

To strain; to subject to excessive tests.

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.

# (still current)

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...