die

/dɑɪ/ v [I] (present participle dying, past tense and past participle died)

Definition

› to stop living: He died of a heart attack. She died in her sleep at the age of 94. fig. The engine just died (= stopped working). › If you say that you could have/nearly died of a particular feeling, you mean that you felt the feeling very strongly: I was so embarrassed, I could have died. be dying › To be dying to do something, or for something, is to be eager to do or to have it: I’m dying to hear the news. I’m dying for a cup of coffee.

(Definition of die v from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)