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)

1. (intransitive) To die gradually or slowly.
2. (intransitive) To diminish or wane; to cease gradually.

   Synonym: fade away

   • 1802, Robert Southey, The Inchcape Rock‎^[1]:

     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.

3. (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:

     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.