die away

present singular third person dies away · participle present dying away · participle past died away · past died away

1. intransitiveTo die gradually or slowly.
2. intransitiveTo 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

   Synonyms: fade away

3. obsoleteraretransitiveTo 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