die away

verb, adj — 4 senses

die away

verbalso spelled die-away

1

To die gradually or slowly.

2

To diminish or wane; to cease gradually.

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.1802, Robert Southey, The Inchcape Rock:

3

Obsolete, Rare To cause to die; to do away with.

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.1748, [Samuel Richardson], chapter 45, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume VII, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by John Osborn, […], →OCLC:

die-away

adj

1

Archaic That seems to die away; languishing.

‘But, do not imagine I have always been a die-away swain. No: I have frequented the cheerful haunts of men, and wit!’1788, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Fiction:

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