To die by the roadside of grief and hunger.
--Macaulay.
She will die from want of care. --Tennyson.
2. To suffer death; to lose life.
In due time Christ died for the ungodly. --Rom. v.
6.
3. To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or
extinct; to be extinguished.
Letting the secret die within his own breast.
--Spectator.
Great deeds can not die. --Tennyson.
4. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness,
discouragement, love, etc.
His heart died within, and he became as a stone. --1
Sam. xxv. 37.
The young men acknowledged, in love letters, that
they died for Rebecca. --Tatler.
5. To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die
to pleasure or to sin.
6. To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to
vanish; -- often with out or away.
Blemishes may die away and disappear amidst the
brightness. --Spectator.
7. (Arch.) To disappear gradually in another surface, as
where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
8. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
{To die in the last ditch}, to fight till death; to die
rather than surrender.
``There is one certain way,'' replied the Prince
[William of Orange] `` by which I can be sure never
to see my country's ruin, -- I will die in the last
ditch.'' --Hume (Hist.
of Eng. ).
{To die out}, to cease gradually; as, the prejudice has died
out.
Syn: To expire; decease; perish; depart; vanish.