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die
  1. The cubical part of a pedestal, a plinth.
  2. A device for cutting into a specified shape.
  3. A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
  4. A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
  5. An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
  6. (electronics) (plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
  7. Any small cubical or square body.
  8. Synonyms:
  9. Examples:
    1. “He shook his hand and rolled the die which tumbled and landed on a four.”
deadness
  1. The state of not being alive. Having the property of lifelessness, as if dead.
  2. A lack of elasticity.
  3. A lack of sparkle in a fizzy drink.
  4. A lack of animation in a person.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “His last thought before the sweet deadness of sleep overcame him was that he had to be rescued quickly or else not at all.”
      “I thought this terribly symptomatic of the deadness of his feelings, no doubt the result of too much shock treatment.”
      “Survivors frequently complain of chronic depression and an inner deadness, unable to experience lasting pleasure or excitement.”
death
  1. The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.
  2. (capitalized) The personification of death as a hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.
  3. (the death) The collapse or end of something.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The death of one of history's most notorious evildoers remains a mystery to this day.”
      “Enraged at having been embezzled, mob boss Jimmy demanded the death of his former accountant.”
      “Could the proliferation of internet video streaming herald the death of traditional cinemas?”
die
  1. A regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
  2. (obsolete) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
  3. (electronics) (plural also dies) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “He shook his hand and rolled the die which tumbled and landed on a four.”
deadliness
  1. The degree to which a thing is deadly.
  2. The quality of being deadly.
  3. Tedium, or the quality of being boring
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  5. Examples:
    1. “No one with any sense would place a trap of such deadliness so close to a populated area.”
      “While he radiated innocence and virginity, Siterra radiated seductiveness, wildness, and deadliness.”
      “The pregnant silence is almost eerie as it spreads round the room, reaching every corner, suffocating me as I inhale its intoxicating deadliness.”
deathblow
  1. A strike or blow that leads to death, especially a coup de grace.
  2. Something that prevents the completion, or ends the existence, of a project etc.; a fatal setback.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The soldier implored Usama for amnesty just as Usama prepared to deliver the deathblow.”
      “Taken together, this legal wrangling could be a deathblow to the company that once ruled the Internet.”
      “Kevin's intervention in the fight enables his friend to strike the deathblow and he awards the boy his metal mask, the heirdom to the throne and his friendship.”
deadland
  1. Wasteland; a desert or other place that does not support life.
  2. A place of death; a deadly land.
dead
  1. (uncountable, singular only, often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
  2. (plural, with "the") Those who have died.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Chaelus, Roan Lord of the House of Malius is raised from the dead by the hand of a child.”
      “While in Paris, Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night.”
deathfic
  1. (countable, fandom slang) A work of fan fiction centered around the death of a character.
  2. (uncountable, fandom slang) Such fan fiction collectively.
deathbed
  1. The bed on which someone dies.
  2. The last hours before death.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “On his deathbed, wracked by tuberculosis, he seems to have cursed his fate.”
      “From the moment we leave our mother's body at birth to our last gasp on our deathbed, we need air every minute.”
      “In 1953, as Arthur lay on his deathbed, Comtessa Dialta claims he promised his illegitimate daughter, Liana, a portion of his estate.”
deathscape
  1. A notional landscape of death or the cultural practices that surround it.
deathcare
  1. The provision of products and services for the burial or cremation of the dead.
deathlore
  1. (psychology) The study of human aspects of death and the associated grief and rituals; thanatology.
dyingness
  1. The state of dying or the stimulation of such a state; extreme languor.
deadcart
  1. (historical) A cart for transporting the bodies of the dead in times of plague.
deathday
  1. Date of (someone's previous) death; anniversary of a death.
deathtime
  1. The time when a person dies, especially as determined for tax purposes.
deathmonger
  1. One who peddles death; a murderer of many.
deads
  1. (mining) The substances that enclose the ore on every side.
deathfulness
  1. An appearance suggestive of death.
deadlihood
  1. (obsolete) The state of being dead; death.
deathliness
  1. The state or quality of being deathly.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Within its limits the image blends two main features of Darwin's world, its astonishingly evolved, beautiful, sexual and reproductive contrivances and its deathliness.”
deathiness
  1. (obsolete) The state or quality of being deathy.
dying
die
  1. Obsolete spelling of dye
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He shook his hand and rolled the die which tumbled and landed on a four.”
dies
  1. plural of die (when used in the sense of a pattern)
  2. Synonyms:
deathmongers
  1. plural of deathmonger
deathscapes
  1. plural of deathscape
deadlinesses
deathblows
deathtimes
  1. plural of deathtime
deadcarts
  1. plural of deadcart
deathbeds
deathfics
  1. plural of deathfic
deadlands
  1. plural of deadland
deathdays
  1. plural of deathday
deadnesses
deaths
  1. plural of death
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “How many of these incidents, and how many civilian deaths, does it take in Afghanistan to constitute a war crime?”
      “The deaths were often blamed on the victims' lack of alertness for the large waves that occasionally washed ashore.”
      “The proportion of neonatal deaths attributed to major genetic or congenital abnormalities has increased.”
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