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Definition: Die Away |
Die AwayVerb1. Become less in amount or intensity; "The storm abated". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Die AwaySynonyms: abate (v), let up (v), slack (v), slack off (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cessation | Come to a stand, come to a standstill; come to a deadlock, come to a full stop; arrive; go out, die away; wear away, wear off; pass away; (be past); be at an end; disintegrate, self-destruct. |
Nonincrease, Decrease | Verb: decrease, diminish, lessen; abridge; (shorten); shrink; (contract); drop off, fall off, tail off; fall away, waste, wear; wane, ebb, decline; descend; subside; melt away, die away; retire into the shade, hide its diminished head, fall to a low ebb, run low, languish, decay, crumble. |
Oblivion | Slip memory, escape memory, fade from memory, die away from the memory; lose, lose sight of. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Die Away |
| Etymologies containing "die away": marasmus. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | And burning secrets that just won't ever die away. And on my right, what could I picture? (The Good Girl; writing credit: Mike White) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Author | Quotation |
Publius Cornelius Tacitus | Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | The music seemed to die away. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | And, after waiting for a sound from the tolling bell to die away. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Translations for "die away"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | afsterwe (fail), afsterf (fail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vdes (be dying, burst, croak, decease, depart, die, die down, do in, end, evaporate, expire, give up the ghost, go to glory, go under, go west, necrose, pack up, pass away, pass over, perish, pop off, snuff it, turn up one's toes, wither), thahet (die down, drain, dry off, dry out, dry up, parch, wither), i vuajtur (pained), i mekët, fishket. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | чезнещ (dying, vanishing), чезна (diminish, fade, fade away, languish, peak and pine, pine, recede, tail away, trickle, vanish, wane, waste, wear away, wither), заглъхвам (die down, die out, muffle, quiet, trail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | doznívat (fade out, linger), ztrácet se (fade away, peter out, wear off), ztlumený, slábnout (decline, die down, ebb away, fade, fade away, fade out, fail, falter, flag, weaken). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | dø ud, svækkes. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | uitsterven (fail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | formorti (fail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vaimeta (abate, be alleviated, die down, quieten), vaimentua (abate, be alleviated, die down, quieten). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | s'amortir (to die away). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | abklingen (abate, abatement, fade, fade away, subside, to fade away, wear off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σβήνω σιγά σιγά, εξασθενίζω (debilitate, enervate, enfeeble, wane, weaken). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | epekedõ (lovesick), elhalványul (to discolour, to fade, to go off, to grow dim, to trail off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | morire (die, die down, die out, end, expire, fade, fail, go out, kick the bucket, pass away, perish, spoil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | skellal (disappearance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ieday awayay dissipar (consume, dispel, disperse, dissipate, evanesce, fritter, fritter away, melt, overblow, run to waste, squander), desfalecido (languid), evaporar (boil away, evaporate, exhale, fume), enfraquecido (abated, atrophied, emaciate, impaired, reduced). (various references) se stinge (blow out, break, die, die out, disappear, expire, fade, fail, go, languish, quench), se potoli (abate, burn down, calm, dampen, fall, flatten, lull, quiet, remit, settle, smooth down, soften, subside). (various references) утихнуть (abate, calm down, cease, fall), томный (die-away, lackadaisical), замирать (die, fade). (various references) izgubljen (lorn, lost, missing), izgubiti se (lose oneself), iščileti (come off, disappear). (various references) disminuirse (decrease, diminish, dwindle, lessen, thin), desvanecerse (die, die out, dissolve, fade away, fade out, vanish), desaparecer (clear off, die, die out, disappear, fade out, go away, go under, pass, pass away, peter out, vanish, wear off, work off), dejar poco a poco a oírse, sin fortuna (hapless), apagarse gradualmente (die down, fade), alejarse hasta perderse. (various references) avslockna (go out). (various references) หายไป (เสียง, ลม, เเสงฯลฯ). (various references) solmak (be discolored, be discoloured, change colour, die, die down, discolor, discolour, droop, fade, pale, wane, wear, wear away, whiten, wilt, wither, wither up), sönmek (be extinguished, be on the wane, burn out, die down, go off, go out), kesilmek (be cut, be interrupted, become, cease, close down, clot, Curdle, die down, drop, dry up, go down, go off, go sour, intermit, let up, set, shear, sour, stop, surcease, turn sour), kaybolmak (be lost, clear away, die down, disappear, go, go astray, lose, lose one's bearings, lose out, smear, wander, wither). (various references) непритомний (senseless, unconscious), завмирати (die off, evanish, swoon, tail away, tail off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-i-w-y" | |
-2 letters: yawed. | |
-3 letters: aide, away, awed, dewy, idea, wade, wadi, wady, wide. | |
-4 letters: aid, awa, awe, aye, daw, day, dew, dey, die, dye, wad, wae, way, wed, wye, yaw, yea, yew, yid. | |
-5 letters: aa, ad, ae, ai, aw, ay, de, ed, id, we, ya, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-i-w-y" | |
+1 letter: hideaway. | |
+2 letters: hideaways. | |
+5 letters: wallydraigle. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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