die away

English

Verb

die away (third-person singular simple present dies away, present participle dying away, simple past and past participle died away)

1. (intransitive) To die gradually or slowly.
2. (intransitive) To diminish or wane; to cease gradually.
   • 1802, Robert Southey, The Inchcape Rock^[1]:

     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.

3. (rare, obsolete, transitive) To cause to die; to do away with.
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, VII.45:

     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.