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Meaning of die out | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. To become extinct.
  2. To cease gradually.

Equivalents

Examples

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,[…].”
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.”
The prejudice has died out.”
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.”

CEFR level

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