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Main Entry:
die [dahy]
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: pass away; stop living
Synonyms: be no more, be taken, breathe one's last, cease to exist, conk, croak, decease, demise, depart, drop, drop off, drown, expire, finish, give up the ghost, go way of all flesh, kick the bucket, perish, relinquish life, rest in peace, succumb, suffocate
Antonyms: be born, begin, live
Main Entry: cease
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: stop, conclude
Synonyms: back off, break off, bring to an end, call it a day, call it quits, close, close out, come to an end, culminate, cut it out, desist, die, discontinue, drop, end, fail, finish, give over, halt, intermit, knock off, leave off, pack in, quit, quit cold turkey, refrain, shut down, stay, surcease, terminate, wind up
Notes: cease means to put an end to a state or an activity, to stop - while seize means to take hold of, to grab
Antonyms: begin, commence, continue, go, initiate, keep on, start
Main Entry: choke
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: smother, block
Synonyms: asphyxiate, bar, check, clog, close, congest, constrict, dam, die, drown, fill, gag, garrote, gasp, gibbet, kill, noose, obstruct, occlude, overpower, retard, squeeze, stifle, stop, stopper, strangle, strangulate, stuff, stunt, suffocate, suppress, throttle, wring
Antonyms: release, unblock, unconstrict
Main Entry: decease
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: pass away; expire
Synonyms: buy a one-way ticket, call off all bets, cease, check out*, cool off, croak, deep six, depart, die, drop, go, pass, pass away, pass on, pass over, perish, succumb
Notes: decease is the event of dying or departure from life; disease is an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal and harmful functioning
Antonyms: be born, bear
Main Entry: disappear
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: vanish; cease
Synonyms: abandon, abscond, be done for, be gone, be lost, be no more, be swallowed up, cease to exist, clear, come to naught, decamp, dematerialize, depart, die, die out, disperse, dissipate, dissolve, drop out of sight, ebb, end, end gradually, escape, evanesce, evanish, evaporate, exit, expire, fade, fade away, flee, fly, go, go south, leave, leave no trace, melt, melt away, pass, pass away, perish, recede, retire, retreat, sink, take flight, vacate, vamoose, wane, withdraw
Antonyms: appear, arrive, come in
Main Entry: end
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: die or kill
Synonyms: abolish, annihilate, cease, depart, desist, destroy, die, expire, exterminate, extinguish, lapse, put to death, ruin, run out, wane
Antonyms: bear, create, give birth
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: fall
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: be overthrown by an enemy; surrender
Synonyms: back down, be casualty, be destroyed, be killed, be lost, be taken, bend, capitulate, defer to, die, drop, eat dirt, fall to pieces, give in, give up, give way, go down, go under, lie down, obey, pass into enemy hands, perish, resign, slump, submit, succumb, yield
Antonyms: advance, attain, overcome, overthrow, reach, win
Main Entry: fizzle
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: collapse, fall through
Synonyms: abort, be a fiasco, come to nothing, die, end, end in defeat, end in disappointment, fail, fold, miscarry, misfire, miss the mark, peter out, wane
Antonyms: build, develop, progress
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