Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

die away

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.96 in modern English

Syllables: die -away
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To die gradually or slowly.

Intransitive verb

verb

To diminish or wane; to cease gradually.

Intransitive verb

verb

To cause to die; to do away with.

Obsolete; Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"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."
"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."

Usage

Inflected Forms

dies away (present, singular) dying away (participle, present) died away (participle, past) died away (past)

Synonyms

fade away abate let up slack off slack

Questions

What does die away mean?: To die gradually or slowly.

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