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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

15 9.6
To lose its bubbles and taste flat
  • verb
  • /daɪ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : perder la efervescencia
  • If left uncorked, sparkling water can quickly die and become flat.
  • then the sparkles died

Examples

  • Once the wine is opened, it will die within a couple of hours if not consumed.

  • Outside the cave, the moon was long gone, and the fire began to die.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • No, no, my battery's gonna die.

    Cellular (2004)

  • A month was needed, during which the grasses died around Kearney.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • Get yourself a little bit more caffeine in your life and the pumpkin spice before it dies forever.

  • At the cut, we hear chimes dying, and the door swings open.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • After a few days, the champagne started to die and lost its bubbles.

Synonyms

to become flat
vsto die
5.4

Lose their bubbles and taste less fresh

is the single-word form rather than a two-word phrase

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

How Flat

stale
54 1.1
to die
  • Specialized
15 9.6
to go flat
3 2.8
fizzy
10 1.6

Surface Forms

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

Etymology

The verb die for wine or beer going flat uses the same image of life and loss: the bubbles are the drink's 'life', so when the fizz goes the drink is said to have 'died' and lost its liveliness.