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die out

British  

verb

  1. (of a family, race, etc) to die one after another until few or none are left

  2. to become extinct, esp after a period of gradual decline

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
die out Idioms  

  1. Gradually become extinct, as in As technology advances, and Western culture spreads, many folk traditions are dying out. [Mid-1800s]

Example Sentences

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Going forward, geologists, engineers and economists will be needed, especially as Greenland's traditional livelihoods of hunting and fishing are expected to gradually die out as professions.

From Barron's • Feb. 14, 2026

Yet the laughs, the warmth, the love and the faith-based fellowship die out in the dismal final act.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

It was held, even in the South, to be a regrettable evil which the slave states would eventually abolish or allow to die out in some undefined way.

From Salon • Jul. 26, 2025

Rain and thunderstorms on Monday will then die out and next week another area of high pressure is expected to build across the UK from the north.

From BBC • May 9, 2025

And through the great length and continuity of his dominion the memories and causes of innovations die out, because one change always leaves indentations for the construction of another.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

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