Emily Dickinson Lexicon

die (-d, dying, -s), v. [Early ME.] (webplay: activity, affecting, among, away, ball, banished, being, blood, blow, born, breast, brethren, brisk, called, caught, cause, ceased, child, Christ, circumstance, cold, color, common, darkness, decayed, deep, depart, desires, dies away, disappear, distinct, divine, dominion, drops, dull, Egypt, end, endure, enemy, eternal, everlastingly, expire, extremely, eye, faith, fall, fame, father, feeling, frost, functions, gates, given, God, grace, Greek, grief, hands, head, heart, heavy, horror, hour, hunger, imitating, immortal, incapable of conception, indifference, kill, land, language, law, life, livest, lose, love, manner of dying, master, means, men, mortal, motion, murder, name, nature, night, occasion, pale, passed, people, perfectly, perish, permanent, perpetual, plain, pleasures, portion, power, prayer, punished, recede, remain, renewed, restored, rights, rising, sake, seas, season, second death, secret, separation, ship's, sickness, sight, signifies, slain, sleep, sought, soul, sound, spiritless, spoken, still, stock, stone, suffer, tasteless, thirst, time, tree, truth, use, useless, velocity, vital, vulgar, want, water, weight, wind, wine, words, works, world, wound, young).

1. Perish; lose physical consciousness; (see Luke 8:32).
2. Lose life force; [fig.] become extinct from creation; (see Genesis 6:17).
3. Cease; conclude life; finish breathing; come to an end.
4. Rot; ripen completely; turn bad; become overly mature; [Franklin has “dye”] redden; darken; change to a deeper color.
5. Pass away; perish; depart from this world; (see Genesis 5:5).
6. Expire completely; pass away permanently; cease to exist forever; [fig.] be exhaled entirely; run out of breath.