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dies like flies

dies like flies is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

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Dies like flies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of die like flies.

Words near dies like flies in the dictionary

  1. dies juridicus
  2. dies just how one lived
  3. dies just like one lived
  4. dies just the way one lived
  5. dies laughing
  6. dies like flies
  7. dies like one lived
  8. dies natalis
  9. dies non
  10. dies off
  11. dies on

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