die away

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

  1. (intransitive) To die gradually or slowly.
  2. (intransitive) To diminish or wane; to cease gradually.
    Synonym: fade away
    • 1802, Robert Southey, The Inchcape Rock[1]:
      So thick a haze o’erspreads the sky,
      They cannot see the sun on high:
      The wind hath blown a gale all day;
      At evening it hath died away.
  3. (rare, obsolete, transitive) To cause to die; to do away with.