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die out

verb

  1. (of a family, race, etc) to die one after another until few or none are left

  2. to become extinct, esp after a period of gradual decline

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Gradually become extinct, as in As technology advances, and Western culture spreads, many folk traditions are dying out. [Mid-1800s]
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Whether we should see this as a neat bit of symbolism about de-extinction or a defiant, stubborn reference to industries that ought to have died out long ago is an open question.

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Rain and thunderstorms on Monday will then die out and next week another area of high pressure is expected to build across the UK from the north.

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Once the notes die out, the vampires appear — first to mimic the living’s glory, then to claim their distinct power for themselves.

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The sport may appear to be dying out.

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Not the dog bears, Hemicyoninae, who emerged before and lived through the Miocene, nor the bear dogs, Amphicyonidae, which died out by the late Miocene.

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