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DIE AWAY
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Become less in amount or intensity
Example:
The rain let up after a few hours
Synonyms:
abate; die away; let up; slack; slack off
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "die away" is one way to...):
decrease; diminish; fall; lessen (decrease in size, extent, or range)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Context examples:
Be careful with him always that there may be nothing to excite him of this kind for a long time to come; the traces of such an illness as his do not lightly die away.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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