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Definition of Die down
1. Verb. Suffer from a disease that kills shoots. "The plants near the garage are dying back"
Generic synonyms: Shrink, Shrivel, Shrivel Up, Wither
Derivative terms: Dieback
2. Verb. Become progressively weaker. "The laughter died down"
Definition of Die down
1. Verb. (idiomatic) To become less virulent. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Die Down
Literary usage of Die down
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... leafy, climbing (hoots which die down each season. It is a member of the
monocotyledonous order ..."
2. Mechanics Magazine (1825)
"The heavy balance weights, 1Ш, arc fixed on the top of the screw, which, being
turned round, press the upper die down upon the blank piece of coin, ..."
3. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1838)
"... in Tramée and green-houses, they retain their leaves, and do not die down
during winter. ... die down ..."
4. Fifty Years of English Song: Selections from the Poets of the Reign of Victoria by Henry Fitz Randolph (1887)
"DIE down, O dismal day! and let me live. And come, blue deeps! magnificently strewn
With colored clouds — large, light, and fugitive — By upper winds ..."
5. Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry edited by Epes Sargent (1882)
"die down, O dismal day, and let rao live ; And come, blue deeps, magnificently
strewn With colored clouds—large, light, and fugitive— Ну upper winds through ..."
6. The New American Gardener, Containing Practical Directions on the Culture of by Thomas Green Fessenden (1842)
"... which do not, generally, flower the first year, but die down to the ground
annually, and spring up again every succeeding spring for a number of years. ..."
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