Sekirov Dictionary

die away

verb 3
die-away adjective 1
forms 5

verb3

To die gradually or slowly.
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To diminish or wane; to cease gradually.
- 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. — 1802
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(no longer used, rare) To cause to die; to do away with.
- 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. — 1748

die-away adjective1

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(no longer used) That seems to die away; languishing.
- ‘But, do not imagine I have always been a die-away swain. No: I have frequented the cheerful haunts of men, and wit!’ — 1788

forms

died away · dying away · dies away · more die-away · most die-away

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