Definition of Die away

1. Verb. Become less in amount or intensity. "The rain let up after a few hours"

Exact synonyms: Abate, Let Up, Slack, Slack Off
Generic synonyms: Decrease, Diminish, Fall, Lessen
Derivative terms: Abatement, Letup

Lexicographical Neighbors of Die Away

didymo
didymosphenia geminata
didymous
didymus
didynamia
didynamies
didynamous
didynamy
die
die-cast
die-hard
die-hard(a)
die-off
die-offs
die-sinker
die away (current term)
die back
die down
die hard
die in the arse
die off
die on the vine
die out
dieb
dieback
diebacks
diebs
diecast
diecasting

Literary usage of Die away

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Looking Backward, 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy (1917)
"He showed how, by turning a screw, the volume of the music could be made to fill the room, or die away to an echo so faint and far that one could scarcely ..."

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... the first-mentioned polarities will decay more quickly at first and liberate a negative charge, and finally, as the more sluggish also die away, ..."

3. A History of Illinois, from Its Commencement as a State in 1818 to 1847 by Thomas Ford, James Shields (1854)
"... changes of the venue in criminal cases—The disturbances die away of themselves— The situation in 1842 compared with its condition in December 1846. ..."

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