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Definition of Die away
1. Verb. Become less in amount or intensity. "The rain let up after a few hours"
Generic synonyms: Decrease, Diminish, Fall, Lessen
Derivative terms: Abatement, Letup
Lexicographical Neighbors of Die Away
Literary usage of Die away
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Looking Backward, 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy (1917)
"He showed how, by turning a screw, the volume of the music could be made to fill
the room, or die away to an echo so faint and far that one could scarcely ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... the first-mentioned polarities will decay more quickly at first and liberate
a negative charge, and finally, as the more sluggish also die away, ..."
3. A History of Illinois, from Its Commencement as a State in 1818 to 1847 by Thomas Ford, James Shields (1854)
"... changes of the venue in criminal cases—The disturbances die away of themselves—
The situation in 1842 compared with its condition in December 1846. ..."
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