- buy the farm
- verbpass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life-
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
• Syn:↑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• Derivationally related forms:↑passing (for: ↑pass), ↑expiration (for: ↑expire), ↑exit (for: ↑exit), ↑going (for: ↑go), ↑decedent (for: ↑decease), ↑decease (for: ↑decease), ↑death (for: ↑die), ↑Death (for: ↑die)• Hypernyms: ↑change state, ↑turn• Hyponyms:↑abort, ↑suffocate, ↑stifle, ↑asphyxiate, ↑buy it, ↑pip out, ↑drown, ↑predecease, ↑starve, ↑famish, ↑fall, ↑succumb, ↑yield• Verb Group:• Verb Frames:-Somebody ——s
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phrasal: to get killed : die* * *
buy the farm (US sl)To die• • •Main Entry: ↑farm* * *
Iinformal dieIII refused to admit to my recklessness, even when I nearly bought the farm
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buy the ˈfarm idiom
Useful english dictionary. 2012.