Dictionary

die out en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (idiomatic) To become extinct.
   • Shepard: I thought you always needed another species to serve as one of the parents. Liara: Think about it, Shepard. If we were not able to mate with our own species, we would have died out long before we ever mastered space flight and left our homeworld. 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Med Bay Lab, SSV Normandy:
   • The dinosaurs died out a long time ago.
   • The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway,[…]. 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
2. (idiomatic) To cease gradually.
   • However, apart from all this, the Chief was a grand old man, belonging to a class of individualists which seems to be dying out in these days, when standard behaviour seems to be as prevalent as standard designs. 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:
   • The prejudice has died out.

Forms

Coordinates

die down

Synonyms

die off

Translations (35)

fi kuolla sukupuuttoon (to become extinct) · cs vyhynout (to become extinct) · es extinguirse (to become extinct) · la abolēscō (to become extinct) · la emorior (to become extinct) · az nəsli kəsilmək (to become extinct) · be выміра́ць (to become extinct) · hu kihal (to become extinct) · acw اَنْقَرَض (to become extinct) · hu ploopsé (to become extinct) · uk вимира́ти (to become extinct) · be вы́мерці (to become extinct) · nn døy ut (to become extinct) · da uddø (to become extinct) · is deyja út (to become extinct) · kmr qelîn (to become extinct) · sv dö ut (to become extinct) · eo formorti (to become extinct) · ar اِنْقَرَضَ (to become extinct) · hu kipusztul (to become extinct) · tr soyu tükenmek (to become extinct) · ja 死に絶える (to become extinct) · nb dø ut (to become extinct) · ru вымира́ть (to become extinct) · de aussterben (to become extinct) · uk ви́мерти (to become extinct) · fr s'éteindre (to become extinct) · pt desaparecer (to become extinct) · lv izmirt (to become extinct) · ru вы́мереть (to become extinct) · ca extingir-se (to become extinct) · ro dispărea (to become extinct) · pl wymrzeć (to become extinct) · pl wymierać (to become extinct) · da dø ud (to become extinct)