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💀 To stop living 🌫️ To end 🤤 To want deeply 🛑 To stop working 🤣 To be overwhelmed 🧘 To become indifferent 🛠️ A shaping tool 🎲 A dice cube 🍾 To lose fizz 🔧 To shape material
to die

to die

370 8.1
To feel very embarrassed or laugh a lot
  • verb
  • /daɪ/
  • Informal
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  • I, my mom and I just died laughing about it afterwards.

And Kylie and I have just been dying with laughter.

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Examples

  • And he's just going on in this bit, and I'm dying laughing.

  • When he told the funny story, I thought I would die laughing.

  • And, and we died laughing, man.

  • And you know for me, I think I always die laughing.

  • Oh my God I nearly died so cheers to that.

  • Oh my gosh, I was dying when I saw these.

  • And I and the audience is dying laughing.

  • And Kylie and I have just been dying with laughter.

    I've Had It

  • I hate logic, but sometimes I use it so that I won't die from anxiety.

    Academic text (2007)

  • I'm dying here.

    Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

Synonyms

to die a thousand deaths
vsto die
  • Informal
1 8.6

To feel very afraid or worried many times

is felt suddenly and overwhelmingly in a single intense moment

Antonyms

to keep one's cool
  • Informal
30 3.4

Stay calm and control your feelings when things are hard

Idioms

to die for
  • Informal
28 7.9

So attractive and wanted that people would do a lot to have it

do or die
  • Informal
4 6.7

A situation when you must succeed because failure is not allowed

to live and die by
  • Informal
3 7.2

To depend completely on a belief or rule

to die a thousand deaths
  • Informal
1 8.6

To feel very afraid or worried many times

sine die
  • Formal
1 9.9

With no date set to meet again

cross my heart and hope to die
  • Informal
8.2

To promise honestly that you are telling the truth

to die on one's arse
  • Offensive
9.9

To feel very bored and not interested in what is happening

live by the sword, die by the sword
8.3

People who use violence are likely to die violently

Phrasal Verbs

to die of
520 1.1

To stop living because of a cause like disease or old age

to die out
47 3.7

To stop existing over time, for example animals or traditions

to die down
46 2.7

To become less strong or loud over time

to die off
21 5.8

Plants or animals gradually become fewer until none remain

to die hard
14 7.3

To last for a long time even when people try to stop or change it

to die away
8 4.2

To become quieter and then stop

to die back
  • Specialized
1 6.7

Plant shoots or leaves stop living from the tips inward

Compounds

never-say-die
  • Informal
2 7.4

A person who shows strong hope and refuses to give up

do-or-die
  • Informal
2 7.2

Willing to do anything to succeed when the situation is urgent

do-or-die moment
  • Informal
1 6.0

A time when someone must succeed or they will fail under great pressure

blanking die
  • Specialized
9.8

A tool that cuts flat material into an exact shape in one step

die-sinker
  • Specialized
9.9

A person who cuts designs in metal to make stamps for coins or medals

live-and-die
  • Australian
9.9

A small bush from the tropics whose leaves fold when touched and that has sharp thorns

tool-and-die work
  • Specialized
8.1

Work of designing, making, and fixing metal tools and forms used to make parts

Surface Forms

die infinitive
dying present participle
dies third person singular
died past
died past participle

Etymology

The informal use of die in expressions like 'I nearly died of embarrassment' is an exaggeration of the main meaning — it paints a strong picture of feeling so intense you feel as if you would 'stop living', which makes the idea very clear.