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die away

v. become less in amount or intensity; "The storm abated"; "The rain let up after a few hours" [syn: abate, let up, slack off, slack]

Usage examples of "die away".

Gradually, as time passed, his fears appeared to die away, and he renewed his former habits, when a fresh event reduced him to the pitiable state of prostration in which he now lies.

The ship's bell strikes the half-hour, and as the cries of the three sentries passing the word to the quarter-deck die away, Gabbett, who has been leaning with his back against the door, nudges Jemmy Vetch.

Harriet was a little distressed--did look a little foolish at first: but having once owned that she had been presumptuous and silly, and self-deceived, before, her pain and confusion seemed to die away with the words, and leave her without a care for the past, and with the fullest exultation in the present and future.

He stopped feeding energy to the flames and let them die away, until only the small circle of the original fire still flickered at his feet.

One by one the sullen sounds fell successively on the ear, leaving but sufficient space for each to die away in distant echo, ere the air was again filled by repetition of the iron knell.

As the acuteness of this remorse began to die away, it was succeeded by a sense of joy.

It is bad enough to see our castles overthrown one after another with an interval between in which to recover from the shock, or at least let the echoes of the fall die away.

Nor did the sensation die away at once: of those at the table, each sat awhile thinking.

He plugged his ears and waited for the sound to die away, but it took a very long time.

Then the screens would clear and the electronic blips would die away.