Thesaurus:die
THESAURUS | die |
English
Synonyms
- be called home
- 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
- conk out
- croak
- cross the Great Divide
- cross the Styx
- decease
- depart
- disincarnate
- draw one's last breath
- exit (euphemism)
- expire
- flatline
- forfare
- give one's all
- give up the ghost
- go for a burton
- go gentle into that good night
- go the way of all flesh
- go the way of the dinosaurs
- go the way of the dodo
- go to glory
- go to one's reward (euphemism)
- hand in one's dinner pail
- hop the twig
- join the choir invisible
- keel over
- kick the bucket
- knock off
- lose one's life
- 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 marble
- pass on (euphemism)
- pass the river
- pay the debt of nature (euphemism)
- peg out
- perish
- pop off
- pop one's clogs
- shuffle off this mortal coil
- slip away (euphemism)
- snuff it
- succumb
- take a dirt nap
- turn up one's toes
- yield up the ghost
Antonyms
- breathe [WS]
- live
- subsist
- —
- bear [WS]
- be born
- birth (dated)
- germinate
- spawn
- sprout
- whelp (Of dogs, wolves, etc)
- vitalise
- vivificate
- vivify
- —
- raise
- reanimate
- reawaken
- requicken
- resurrect
- revive
- revivify
- rise from the dead
Hyponyms
- bleed out
- drown
- overdose
- sleep with the fishes
- stifle
- suffocate
See also
- Thesaurus:dead
- Thesaurus:death
- Thesaurus:kill
- List of expressions related to death
Further reading
- “360. death” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “die” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.