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    2 months ago

    The word die can mean end of life, but has an alternative regular meaning: stopped working.

    We use it all the time, for example “I don’t know what happened, I was driving along and the engine just died.” “Due to bad weather my power died.” “I wanted to game, but my controller died.”

    Words can have different meaning and the verb die has a lot of meanings. And there is also a noun die, which is also in common use.

    died; dying ˈdī-iŋ

    intransitive verb

    1: to pass from physical life : EXPIRE died at the age of 56 die young died from his injuries a dying tree

    2a: to pass out of existence : CEASE their anger died at these words

    2b: to disappear or subside gradually often used with away, down, or out the storm died down

    3a: SINK, LANGUISH dying from fatigue

    3b: to long keenly or desperately dying to go

    3c: to be overwhelmed by emotion die of embarrassment

    4a: to cease functioning : STOP the motor died

    4b: to end in failure the bill died in committee

    5: to become indifferent die to worldly things