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# {{lb|en|intransitive}} To [[die]] gradually or slowly. |
# {{lb|en|intransitive}} To [[die]] gradually or slowly. |
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# {{lb|en|intransitive}} To [[diminish]]; to cease gradually. |
# {{lb|en|intransitive}} To [[diminish]] or [[wane]]; to cease gradually. |
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#* '''1802''', {{w|Robert Southey}}, ''{{w|The Inchcape Rock}}''<sup>[https://www.bartleby.com/270/3/205.html]</sup>: |
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#*: So thick a haze o’erspreads the sky, |
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#*: They cannot see the sun on high: |
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#*: The wind hath blown a gale all day; |
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#*: At evening it hath '''died away'''. |
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# {{lb|en|rare|obsolete|transitive}} To cause to die; to [[do away with]]. |
# {{lb|en|rare|obsolete|transitive}} To cause to die; to [[do away with]]. |
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#* '''1748''', {{w|Samuel Richardson}}, ''Clarissa'', VII.45: |
#* '''1748''', {{w|Samuel Richardson}}, ''{{w|Clarissa}}'', VII.45: |
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#*: By little and little, in such a gradual sensible death |
#*: 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. |
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Revision as of 06:44, 12 July 2019
English
Verb
die away (third-person singular simple present dies away, present participle dying away, simple past and past participle died away)
- (intransitive) To die gradually or slowly.
- (intransitive) To diminish or wane; to cease gradually.
- 1802, Robert Southey, The Inchcape Rock[1]:
- 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[1]:
- (rare, obsolete, transitive) To cause to die; to do away with.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, VII.45:
- 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, Clarissa, VII.45: