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die away

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. To die gradually or slowly.
  2. To diminish or wane; to cease gradually.
  3. To cause to die; to do away with.

Equivalents

العربيةزهق
9 more languages
Esperantoformorti
Bahasa Indonesiahilangmenghilang
Српскигаснути
Українськагаснути
Tiếng Việthéo hắt

Examples

“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.”
“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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