Word.ws English Dictionary

died like flies

died like flies is the simple past and past participle of die like flies.

Meaning of die like flies

Verb

die like flies (third-person singular simple present dies like flies, present participle dying like flies, simple past and past participle died like flies)

  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
    Synonyms:
    drop like flies

Questions about died like flies

What is died like flies the simple past and past participle of?
Died like flies is the simple past and past participle of die like flies.

Words near died like flies in the dictionary

  1. died in the ass
  2. died just how one lived
  3. died just like one lived
  4. died just the way one lived
  5. died laughing
  6. died like flies
  7. died like one lived
  8. died off
  9. died on
  10. died on one's arse
  11. died on the vine

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: died like flies (page history and authors); die like flies (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “died like flies.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/died_like_flies. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.