died
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How died fits the hive
Base Score
1
Before any pangram bonus
Unique Letters
3
D E I
Two-Letter Start
DI
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
ED
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- 4 letters
- 3 unique letters
- DI start
- ED ending
- repeated letters
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- died is a four-letter word, so it is worth 1 point when accepted.
- It uses 3 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include d, e, i plus any remaining hive letters.
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Pronunciation
Definitions
verb
To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
verb
To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
"He died a hero's death."
verb
To yearn intensely.
"I'm dying for a packet of crisps."
verb
To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
"The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother."
verb
To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
"He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him."
verb
To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
"If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die."
verb
To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
"When I found out my two favorite musicians would be recording an album together, I literally planned my own funeral arrangements and died."
verb
(of a machine) To stop working, to break down.
"My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning."
verb
(of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
verb
To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
verb
To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
verb
(often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
"to die to pleasure or to sin"
verb
To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
verb
To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
verb
(of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
"Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal..."
verb
To colour with dye, or as if with dye.
Related Words
Same Letters
- eddied
Synonyms
- benomore
- bitethebigone
- bitethedust
- buythefarm
- ceasetobe
- checkout
- crossover
- crosstheriver
- expire
- giveuptheghost
- gotomeetonesmaker
- hopoffthetwig