to die out

  • 1die out — {v.} To die or disappear slowly until all gone. * /This kind of bird is dying out./ * /If you pour salt water on grass, it dies out./ * /The American colonists started colleges so that learning would not die out./ …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 2die out — {v.} To die or disappear slowly until all gone. * /This kind of bird is dying out./ * /If you pour salt water on grass, it dies out./ * /The American colonists started colleges so that learning would not die out./ …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 3die out — index expire, perish Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 4die out — verb 1. become extinct (Freq. 2) Dinosaurs died out • Syn: ↑die off • Hypernyms: ↑disappear, ↑vanish, ↑go away • Verb Frames …

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  • 5die out — phrasal verb [intransitive] Word forms die out : present tense I/you/we/they die out he/she/it dies out present participle dying out past tense died out past participle died out to become weaker or less common and then disappear completely The… …

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  • 6die out — 1) PHRASAL VERB If something dies out, it becomes less and less common and eventually disappears completely. [V P] How did the dinosaurs die out?... [V P] We used to believe that capitalism would soon die out. 2) PHRASAL VERB If something such as …

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  • 7die\ out — v To die or disappear slowly until all gone. This kind of bird is dying out. If you pour salt water on grass, it dies out. The American colonists started colleges so that learning would not die out …

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  • 8die out — phr verb Die out is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑custom, ↑shower, ↑species …

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  • 9To die out — Die Die, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Died}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dying}.] [OE. deyen, dien, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. deyja; akin to Dan. d[ o]e, Sw. d[ o], Goth. diwan (cf. Goth. afd?jan to harass), OFries. d?ia to kill, OS. doian to die, OHG. touwen,… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 10die out — die or disappear slowly until all gone Dinosaurs died out millions of years ago …

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