The difference between Die and Expire

When used as verbs, die means to stop living, whereas expire means to die.

Die is also noun with the meaning: the cubical part of a pedestal, a plinth.

check bellow for the other definitions of Die and Expire

  1. Die as a verb (intransitive):

    To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. or the sciences:}} :

    Examples:

    "He died of embarrassment."

    "He died from heart failure."

    "He died for the one he loved."

    "She died with dignity."

  2. Die as a verb (transitive):

    To stop living and undergo (a specified death).

    Examples:

    "He died a hero's death."

    "They died a thousand deaths."

  3. Die as a verb (intransitive, figuratively):

    To yearn intensely.

    Examples:

    "I'm dying for a packet of crisps."

    "I'm dying for a piss."

  4. Die as a verb (intransitive):

    To be utterly cut off by family or friends, as if dead.

    Examples:

    "The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother."

  5. Die as a verb (intransitive, figuratively):

    To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.

    Examples:

    "He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him."

  6. Die as a verb (intransitive, colloquial, hyperbolic):

    To be mortified or shocked by a situation.

    Examples:

    "If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die."

  7. Die as a verb (figurative, intransitive, hyperbolic):

    To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.

    Examples:

    "When I found out my two favorite musicians would be recording an album together, I literally planned my own funeral arrangements and died."

  8. Die as a verb (intransitive, of a, machine):

    To stop working, to break down.

    Examples:

    "My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning."

  9. Die as a verb (intransitive, of a, computer program):

    To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).

  10. Die as a verb:

    To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.

  11. Die as a verb:

    To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.

  12. Die as a verb (often with "to"):

    To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.

    Examples:

    "to die to pleasure or to sin"

  13. Die as a verb (intransitive, video games):

    To be killed by an enemy. Usually followed by to or another preposition.

    Examples:

    "I can't believe I just died to a squirrel!"

  14. Die as a verb (architecture):

    To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.

  15. Die as a verb:

    To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.

  16. Die as a verb (of a stand-up comedian or a joke):

    To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.

    Examples:

    "Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal..."

  1. Die as a noun:

    The cubical part of a pedestal, a plinth.

  2. Die as a noun:

    A device for cutting into a specified shape.

  3. Die as a noun:

    A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)

  4. Die as a noun:

    A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.

  5. Die as a noun:

    An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.

  6. Die as a noun (electronics):

    (plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.

  7. Die as a noun:

    Any small cubical or square body.

  1. Die as a noun:

    A regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.

  2. Die as a noun (obsolete):

    That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.

  3. Die as a noun (electronics):

    (plural also dies) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.

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  1. Expire as a verb (intransitive):

    To die.

    Examples:

    "The patient expired in hospital."

  2. Expire as a verb (intransitive):

    To lapse and become invalid.

    Examples:

    "My library card will expire next week."

  3. Expire as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To exhale; to breathe out.

  4. Expire as a verb (transitive):

    To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapour; to emit in minute particles.

  5. Expire as a verb (transitive):

    To bring to a close; to terminate.

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