Close
Close verb - To come to an end.
Usage example: the services closed with a short prayer
Die
Die verb - To come to an end.
Usage example: the storm died just as dawn was breaking over the horizon
Nearby Word: died
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Their battlefield role is pretty much "charge anything that gets close and die horribly to buy time for the Fire Warriors to move to another position".
Source: We are "Team Cannon Fodder" -
Orphaned Series: Unfortunately, many side plots have a tendency to peter off and die instead of come to a close.
Source: Roleplay / Unicorns Visions -
He also has severe self-loathing, intimacy, trust, and abandonment issues which come into play when people under his command or close to him die because of the inherent danger of his job.
Source: Broken Ace
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