die away
See also: die-away
English
Verb
die away (third-person singular simple present dies away, present participle dying away, simple past and past participle died away)
- (intransitive) To die gradually or slowly.
- (intransitive) To diminish or wane; to cease gradually.
- Synonym: fade away
- 1802, Robert Southey, The Inchcape Rock:
- 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.
- (rare, obsolete, transitive) To cause to die; to do away with.
- 1748, [Samuel Richardson], chapter 45, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume VII, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], OCLC 13631815:
- 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.
-