die away

Idioms  

1. Also, die down. Gradually diminish, fade, or subside; slowly come to an end. For example, As they moved higher up, their voices died away, or The rain seems to be dying down. The first term, from the late 1600s, today is most often applied to a diminishing sound and was originally used to describe the wind slowing down or ceasing to blow. The variant dates from the first half of the 1800s.

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Example Sentences

Shouts of approval for Saldaña’s emotional rendition of “México Lindo y Querido,” the classic ranchera that asks the living to take the protagonist back to Mexico if he should die away from his home country.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2023

Read more from the BBC's Joel Gunter, as he finds older residents with strong emotional ties and no desire to die away from home.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2022

And because they are freighted with their own history of making and use, they can function like aromas that briefly unlock troves of private narrative, only to die away.

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2021

But as preparations thrummed up through the gears in Moscow on Wednesday there was a familiar sense of clarity, of that background hum beginning to die away.

From The Guardian • Jun. 13, 2018

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.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

Related Words

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