crever

to pop, burst; to have a puncture; to snuff it, pop one's clogs; to die; to wear out, knacker

“crever un œil à quelqu'un” — to gouge someone's eye, to poke someone's eye out, to put someone's eye out

From Old French crever, inherited from Latin crepāre (“to rattle, creak, crack”). The informal sense of 'die' is shared with the Italian cognate crepare and Romanian crăpa.