Devolve and Die

verb

• Pass on or delegate to another.
  • usage: "The representative devolved his duties to his aides while he was in the hospital"
• Be inherited by.
  • usage: "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead"
  • synonyms: fall, return, pass
• Grow worse.
  • usage: "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match"
  • synonyms: deteriorate, drop, degenerate

• (v.t.) To transfer from one person to another; to deliver over; to hand down; -- generally with upon, sometimes with to or into.
• (v.t.) To roll onward or downward; to pass on.
• (v.i.) To pass by transmission or succession; to be handed over or down; -- generally with on or upon, sometimes with to or into; as, after the general fell, the command devolved upon (or on) the next officer in rank.

To pass on or delegate to another, e. G. A' DEVOLVE'd letter of credit.

noun

• A small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers.
  • synonyms: dice
• A device used for shaping metal.
• A cutting tool that is fitted into a diestock and used for cutting male (external) screw threads on screws or bolts or pipes or rods.

verb

• Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life.
  • usage: "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"
  • synonyms: decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it
• Suffer or face the pain of death.
  • usage: "Martyrs may die every day for their faith"
• Be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame.
  • usage: "I was dying with embarrassment when my little lie was discovered"; "We almost died laughing during the show"
• Stop operating or functioning.
  • usage: "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident"
  • synonyms: fail, go bad, give way, give out, conk out, go, break, break down
• Feel indifferent towards.
  • usage: "She died to worldly things and eventually entered a monastery"
• Languish as with love or desire.
  • usage: "She dying for a cigarette"; "I was dying to leave"
• Cut or shape with a die.
  • usage: "Die out leather for belts"
  • synonyms: die out
• To be on base at the end of an inning, of a player.
• Lose sparkle or bouquet.
  • usage: "wine and beer can pall"
  • synonyms: pall, become flat
• Disappear or come to an end.
  • usage: "Their anger died"; "My secret will die with me"
• Suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense. )
  • usage: "Whosoever.. Believes in me shall never die"

• (n.) A metal or plate (often one of a pair) so cut or shaped as to give a certain desired form to or impress any desired device on, an object or surface, by pressure or by a blow; used in forging metals, coining, striking up sheet metal, etc.
• (n.) Any small cubical or square body.
• (n.) A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates or blanks from plates or for forming cups or capsules, as from sheet metal, by drawing.
• (n.) A hollow internally threaded screw-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, etc.; one of the separate parts which make up such a tool.
• (v.i.) To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished.
• (v.i.) To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away.
• (v.i.) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
• (v.i.) To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin.
• (v.i.) To become vapid, flat or spiritless, as liquor.
• (v.i.) To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought.
• (n.) A small cube, marked on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See Dice.
• (pl.) of Dice.
• (n.) That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado.
• (n.) That which is or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
• (v.i.) To suffer death; to lose life.
• (v.i.) To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.