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die
Verb
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If a person or animal dies, it stops living.
My father died last year in a car crash, I really miss him.
The song is about her brother who died young at the age of ten.
Many more people die of heart attacks than from violence.
She died from being sick.
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If something dies, it stops existing.
The idea died once the money was all gone.
Rock and roll will never die.
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If a machine dies, it stops working.
The car died suddenly on the highway.
My computer died on me over the weekend.
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If you're dying for something, you want it very much.
I'm dying for a chance to meet him.
die
Noun
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A die is a piece of metal or other hard material used to shape, cut, or mold a product.
die
Noun
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A die is a cube, each side of which is marked with a different number of spots from 1 to 6.
der
interjection
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(Australian) Disdainful indication that something is obvious.
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(Australian) Indication of stupidity.
charlotte
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noun
a mold lined with cake or crumbs and filled with fruit or whipped cream or custard
Charlotte
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noun
the largest city in North Carolina; located in south central North Carolina
gray
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adjective
(= grey, greyish, grayish)
of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black
the little grey cells
gray flannel suit
a man with greyish hair
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noun
a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
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adjective
(= grey, hoar, hoary)
showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
whose beard with age is hoar
— Coleridge
nodded his hoary head
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adjective
(= grey)
used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms)
a stalwart grey figure
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noun
(= grey)
clothing that is a grey color
he was dressed in grey
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noun
(= grey)
horse of a light gray or whitish color
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noun
(= grey)
any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey
the Confederate army was a vast grey
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noun
the SI unit of energy absorbed from ionizing radiation; equal to the absorption of one joule of radiation energy by one kilogram of matter; one gray equals 100 rad
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verb
(= grey)
turn grey
Her hair began to grey
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verb
(= grey)
make grey
The painter decided to grey the sky
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adjective
(= grey)
intermediate in character or position
a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal
Gray
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noun
American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)
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noun
English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)
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noun
United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)
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noun
English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)