Synonyms for die
All synonyms
Verb
1. Perish
perish, decease, expire, pass away, pass, depart, fall formal, pop off informal, pass on, go out, come to nothing, conk out informal, go, disappear, exit, snuff it informal, go bad, give out, fade away, succumb, fade, vanish
Other
game-end, pall, bite the biscuit slang, hop the twig dated
Definitions
- v. 1
To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
Related words
- Word family
- die-hard die-in dieversity diemaker diesinker
- Phrases
- die away die-hard die down die-off die out commit die die back die laughing
Forms
- Past participle
- died
e.g. died → perished, deceased, expired, passed…
Choose the right word
Die, to go out of life, become destitute of vital power and action, is figuratively applied to anything which has the appearance of life.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- disappear Tom watched the plane disappear into the distance.
- perish If a mouse only has one hole, it will soon perish.
- pall A pall of darkness cloaked the valley.
By length
- 2 letters
- go1
- 4 letters
- fall1, pass1, exit2, fade1, pall1
- 6 letters
- depart2, expire2, vanish2, perish2
- 7 letters
- succumb2, decease2
- 9 letters
- disappear3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (exit2 = 2 syllables).