dy

1. To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
2. To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).

   He died a hero's death.

3. To yearn intensely.

   I'm dying for a packet of crisps.

4. To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.

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

5. To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.

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

6. To be mortified or shocked by a situation.

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

7. To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.

   When I found out my two favorite musicians would be recording an album together, I literally planned my own funeral arrangements and died.

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

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

9. (of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
10. To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
11. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
12. (often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.

    to die to pleasure or to sin

13. To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
14. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
15. (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

To colour with dye, or as if with dye.