die 1 
(dī)
(dī)intr.v. died, dy·ing (dīĭng), dies
Phrasal Verbs: 1. To stop living; become dead; expire: plants that died in the first frost of the season.
2. To cease existing, often gradually; fade: The sunlight died in the west.
3. To experience an intense, seemingly unbearable reaction to something: nearly died of embarrassment.
4. Informal To want something very much. Usually used in the progressive aspect: I am dying for a box of chocolates. She was dying to see the exhibit.
5. To stop working or operating: The motor died when we ran out of gas.
6. To become indifferent: had died to all worldly concerns.
die back Botany
To be affected by dieback.
die down
To lose strength; subside: The winds died down.
die off
To undergo a sudden, sharp decline in population: hypothesized that pesticides were causing bees to die off across the country.
die out
Idioms: To cease living or existing completely; become extinct: a theory that explains how the dinosaurs died out; customs that died out with the advent of technology.
die hard
1. To take a long time in passing out of existence: racial prejudices that die hard.
2. To resist against overwhelming, hopeless odds: radicalism that dies hard.
die on the vine
To fail, as from lack of support, especially at an early stage: a plan that died on the vine.
to die for Informal
Remarkable or highly desirable.
[Middle English dien, probably from Old Norse deyja; see dheu-2 in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]
- get on someone's nerves
- get on the stick
- get on with
- get (or have)the better of
- get (or have) the better of
- get out
- get out of
- get over
- get/put it all together
- get religion
- get rid of
- get shit together
- get/sink (one's) teeth into
- get (someone's) goat
- get someone's goat
- get someone's number
- get something off chest
- get (something) off (one's) chest
- get something off one's chest
- get somewhere
- gettable
- get teeth into
- getter
- get the best of
- get the better of