Thesaurus:die
English
editVerb
editSense: to stop living; to become dead
editSynonyms
edit- assume room temperature (slang)
- auger in (euphemism)
- be called home
- be gathered to one's fathers (biblical and literary, dated)
- be no more
- bite the big one
- bite the biscuit
- bite the dust
- buy the farm
- buy it
- cark it
- cash in
- cash in one's chips
- check out
- close one's eyes for the last time
- code
- conk out
- croak
- cross over
- cross the Great Divide
- cross the Styx
- decease
- decompose
- dematerialize
- depart
- disincarnate
- draw one's last breath
- drop off the hooks
- exit (euphemism)
- expire
- flatline
- forfare
- give one's all
- give up the ghost
- go for a burton
- go gentle into that good night
- go over to the majority
- go the way of all flesh
- go the way of the dinosaurs
- go the way of the dodo
- go the way of the dodo bird
- go to glory
- go to one's reward (euphemism)
- go west
- hand in one's checks
- hand in one's dinner pail
- hop the twig
- join the choir invisible
- keel over
- kick the bucket
- kick off
- knock off
- liquidate
- lose my life for Jesus Christ
- lose the number of one's mess
- meet one's doom
- meet one's end
- meet one's maker
- pass (euphemism)
- pass away (euphemism)
- pass in one's checks
- pass in one's marble
- pass on (euphemism)
- pass over (obsolete)
- pass the river
- pay nature's debt (euphemism)
- pay the debt of nature (euphemism)
- peg out
- perish
- pop off
- pop one's clogs
- shuffle off this mortal coil
- sink (archaic)
- sleep with one's fathers (literary, dated)
- slip away (euphemism)
- snuff it
- succumb
- take a dirt nap
- turn up one's toes
- yield up the ghost
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editSee also
editFurther reading
edit- “360. death” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “die” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.