DIE BACK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does die back mean? 

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

1. suffer from a disease that kills shoots

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIE BACK (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Suffer from a disease that kills shoots

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

die back; die down

Context example:

The plants near the garage are dying back

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

shrink; shrivel; shrivel up; wither (wither, as with a loss of moisture)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

dieback (a disease of plants characterized by the gradual dying of the young shoots starting at the tips and progressing to the larger branches)