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Definition of Die off
1. Verb. Become extinct. "Dinosaurs died out"
Definition of Die off
1. Verb. (idiomatic) To become extinct ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Die Off
Literary usage of Die off
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Past in the Present: What is Civilization? by Sir Arthur Mitchell (1881)
"... are protected to the utmost, die off and disappear. Fewer of them, at any
rate, survive, and the weaker of the weak are those who perish. ..."
2. Under the Red Crescent: Adventures of an English Surgeon with the Turkish by Charles Snodgrass Ryan, John Sandes (1897)
"... Depression—I am slightly wounded—Turkish Florence Nightingales—A Ghastly
Case —I am powerless for want of Stores—The Men die off like Sheep—Arrival of a ..."
3. Observations on the Rate of Mortality & Sickness Existing Amongst Friendly by Henry Ratcliffe (1850)
"It will be seen, on reference to Table LIX., that half the lives of this class
die off at age 65-6, showing a superior vitality of two years, ..."
4. Lectures on Plant Physiology by Ludwig Jost (1907)
"Long before the specimen in question as a whole succumbs, individual parts of it
die off. Thus the leaves die off after they have performed their functions ..."
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