die away en · VERB
Meanings
- (intransitive) To die gradually or slowly.
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(intransitive) 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, Robert Southey, The Inchcape Rock:
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(obsolete, rare, transitive) 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, [Samuel Richardson], chapter 45, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume VII, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by John Osborn, […], →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| dying away | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| died away | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| died away | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| dies away | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
Synonyms
Translations (2)
la dēsenēscō (die gradually) · eo formorti (die gradually)