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Die away

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To die gradually or slowly. intransitive
  2. 2
    become less in amount or intensity wordnet
  3. 3
    To diminish or wane; to cease gradually. intransitive

    "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."

  4. 4
    To cause to die; to do away with. obsolete, rare, transitive

    "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."

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