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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

die like flies en · VERB

Meanings

  1. Synonym of drop like flies.
    • They must have been dying like flies here. 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 196:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
dies like flies Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
died like flies Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
died like flies Tense=Past lexicographic
dying like flies Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Synonyms

drop like flies