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Idioms and Phrases

Also, die down . Gradually diminish, fade, or subside; slowly come to an end. For example, As they moved higher up, their voices died away , or The rain seems to be dying down . The first term, from the late 1600s, today is most often applied to a diminishing sound and was originally used to describe the wind slowing down or ceasing to blow. The variant dates from the first half of the 1800s.
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The cacophony of an independence referendum campaign which had echoed through Scotland for three years had died away and Alex Salmond, so often the embodiment of pugnacious self-confidence, appeared pale and drained.

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As a poisoned rat dies away from the bait box, Predator Free Wellington needs the autopsies to monitor effectiveness.

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"It wasn't going to die away - it was something bigger than that," Mr Whitworth said.

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There’s a Vietnamese superstition: If you die away from home, your soul will become restless and won’t leave for the afterlife.

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Marked ersterbend in the score — or “dying away†— these long final notes of the Ninth hung like last words, or the closing colors of a long sunset.

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