Die away
verb
verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To die gradually or slowly. intransitive
- 2 become less in amount or intensity wordnet
- 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 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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More examples"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."