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dido
  • n  (Roman mythology) a princess of Tyre who was the founder and queen of Carthage; Virgil tells of her suicide when she was abandoned by Aeneas
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die
  • n  a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers
  • n  a device used for shaping metal
  • n  a cutting tool that is fitted into a diestock and used for cutting male (external) screw threads on screws or bolts or pipes or rods
  • v  pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
    She died from cancer
  • v  suffer or face the pain of death
    Martyrs may die every day for their faith
  • v  be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame
    We almost died laughing during the show
  • v  stop operating or functioning
    The car died on the road
  • v  feel indifferent towards
    She died to worldly things and eventually entered a monastery
  • v  languish as with love or desire
  • v  cut or shape with a die
  • v  to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player
  • v  lose sparkle or bouquet
  • v  disappear or come to an end
    Their anger died
    My secret will die with me!
  • v  suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense)
    Whosoever..believes in me shall never die
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