English > buy the farm: 1 sense > verb 1, changeMeaning | Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain / sustain life. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s |
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Synonyms | die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it |
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Caused by | kill | Cause to die |
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Entailed by | leave, leave behind | Be survived by after one's death |
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Narrower | abort | Cease development, die, and be aborted |
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buy it, pip out | Be killed / killed or die |
drown | die from being submerged / submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating / asphyxiating |
fall | die, as in battle / battle or in a hunt / hunt |
predecease | die before |
starve, famish | die of food deprivation |
succumb, yield | Be fatally overwhelmed |
suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate | Be asphyxiated |
Broader | change state, turn | Undergo a transformation or a change of position or action |
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Opposite | be born | Come into existence through birth |
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Similar to | die | Suffer or face the pain of death |
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fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down | stop operating or functioning |
Spanish | acudir, asfixiarse, asfixiar, caducar, caer muerto, colgar los guayos, croar, dejar de existir, diñar, entregar el alma, espichar, estirar la pata, estrangular, exhalar el último suspiro, expirar, fallecer, fenecer, finar, irse al otro barrio, ir, morir, palmar, pasar a mejor vida, pasar, perder la vida, perecer, salir de este mundo, salir, sucumbir, vencer |
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Catalan | acudir, asfixiar, caducar, dinyar-la, estrangular, expirar, finar, morir-se, morir, perir |
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