DIE AWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does die away mean? 

• DIE AWAY (verb)
  The verb DIE AWAY has 1 sense:

1. become less in amount or intensity

  Familiarity information: DIE AWAY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIE AWAY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become less in amount or intensity

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

abate; die away; let up; slack; slack off

Context example:

The rain let up after a few hours

Hypernyms (to "die away" is one way to...):

decrease; diminish; fall; lessen (decrease in size, extent, or range)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

 Context examples 

And left a name behind her that would not soon die away.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I am in fear that her power of reading the Count's sensations may die away, just when we want it most.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

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

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

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

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then, too, existence for you must be a scene of continual change and excitement, or else the world is a dungeon: you must be admired, you must be courted, you must be flattered—you must have music, dancing, and society—or you languish, you die away.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The snow had covered our late footprints; my new track was the only one to be seen; and even that began to die away (it snowed so fast) as I looked back over my shoulder.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Shortly afterwards, I heard the cracking of their whips die away in the distance.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

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; for, as to her friend's approbation, Emma had instantly removed every fear of that nature, by meeting her with the most unqualified congratulations.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

When I heard the voices die away, and saw the quiet evening cloud grow dim, and all the colours in the valley fade, and the golden snow upon the mountain-tops become a remote part of the pale night sky, yet felt that the night was passing from my mind, and all its shadows clearing, there was no name for the love I bore her, dearer to me, henceforward, than ever until then.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If I thought that the Count's power over her would die away equally with her power of knowledge it would be a happy thought; but I am afraid that it may not be so.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)