die away
Verb
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Verb
die away
- (intransitive) To die gradually or slowly.
- (intransitive) To diminish or wane; to cease gradually.
- 1802, Robert Southey, The Inchcape Rock:
- 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.
- 1802, Robert Southey, The Inchcape Rock:
- (rare, obsolete, transitive) To cause to die; to do away with.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, VII.45:
- By little and little, in such a gradual sensible death […] God dies away in us, as I may say, all human satisfactions, in order to subdue his poor creatures to Himself.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, VII.45:
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