died
- 1Simple past and past participle of die.
Thousands died during the famine that swept the region.
The engine sputtered and died halfway up the hill.
Note
A regular past form, so one spelling covers both she died and she has died. The preposition that follows carries the cause: died of a fever and died from wounds are both standard, with from leaning toward medical and scientific writing, while died for a cause usually names a wider motive. Died with a disease is archaic, and died to in place of from is proscribed.
died is a form of die
die, verb: To stop living; to suffer death, whether from a cause ('die of cancer', 'die from wounds'), in a certain way or state ('die young', 'die a hero'), or for a cause. Full entry
- Spelling
- die → died: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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