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DIE AWAY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become less in amount or intensity

Example:

The rain let up after a few hours

Synonyms:

abate; die away; let up; slack; slack off

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "die away" is one way to...):

decrease; diminish; fall; lessen (decrease in size, extent, or range)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Credits

 Context examples: 

Be careful with him always that there may be nothing to excite him of this kind for a long time to come; the traces of such an illness as his do not lightly die away.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I see the lights scattered all over the town, sometimes in rows where the streets are, and sometimes singly; they run right up the Esk and die away in the curve of the valley.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)