dies
Because it is a word with a single syllable, dies is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofdies
- To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
- To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
Example: "He died a hero's death."
- To yearn intensely.
Example: "I'm dying for a packet of crisps."
- To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
Example: "The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother."
- To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
Example: "He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him."
- To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
Example: "If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die."
- To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
Example: "When I found out my two favorite musicians would be recording an album together, I literally planned my own funeral arrangements and died."
- (of a machine) To stop working, to break down.
Example: "My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning."
- (of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
- To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
- To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
- (often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
Example: "to die to pleasure or to sin"
- 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.
Example: "Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal..."
- The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.
- A device for cutting into a specified shape.
- A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
- A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
- An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
- (plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
- Any small cubical or square body.
- A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.
- Any hue, color, or blee.
- To colour with dye, or as if with dye.
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