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bites the dust
| Main Entry: |
bite the dust
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pass away |
| Synonyms: | bite the dust, buy the farm, cash in one's chips, cease living, croak, die, expire, kick off, kick the bucket, meet one's maker, pass on, push up daisies, succumb |
| Main Entry: | expire |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come to an end |
| Synonyms: | bite the dust, buy it, cash in chips, cease, close, conclude, croak, decease, depart, die, elapse, end, finish, go, kick the bucket, lapse, pass, pass away, pass on, pass over, perish, quit, run out, stop, strike out, terminate, up and die |
| Antonyms: | bear, begin, commence, start |
| Main Entry: | pass away |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | die |
| Synonyms: | bite the dust, buy the farm, cash in one's chips, cease living, croak, decease, demise, depart, die, drop, expire, kick the bucket, meet one's maker, pass on, perish, succumb |
| Antonyms: | be born, live |
| Main Entry: | perish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | die, decline, decay |
| Synonyms: | OD, be destroyed, be killed, be lost, bite the dust, break down, buy the farm, cease, check out*, collapse, corrupt, croak, crumble, decease, decompose, demise, depart, disappear, disintegrate, end, expire, fall, give up the ghost, go, go under, kick the bucket, lose life, pass, pass away, pass on, rot, succumb, vanish, waste*, wither |
| Antonyms: | give birth, revive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | buy the farm |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pass away |
| Synonyms: | bite the dust, buy it, buy the ranch, cash in one's chips, cease living, croak, die, expire, farm, kick the bucket, meet one's maker, pass on, succumb |
| Main Entry: | kick the bucket |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | die |
| Synonyms: | bite the dust, buy the farm, cash in one's chips, cease living, croak, expire, go belly up, go to the wall, go west, meet one's maker, pass away, pass on, shove off, succumb |
| Main Entry: | meet one's maker |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | die |
| Synonyms: | bite the dust, buy the farm, cash in one's chips, cease living, croak, expire, go to glory, go to one's reward, kick the bucket, pass away, pass on, succumb |
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