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Definition of "die down" [die down]

  • To become less virulent. (verb)

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Use "die down" in a sentence
  • "So I sat propped against the rough plaster wall, watching the flames die down in the hearth and alternating between drowsy half-sleep and abrupt, heart-pounding terror when it was all I could do to keep from tearing open the outer door and shrieking the name of my lost companion and mentor into the night."
  • "It was like seeing the sacred flame die down on some thrice-sacred altar."
  • "Thucydides, a Greek historian and hard-nosed former admiral, considered this tradition credible, as long as the Sicels had waited for the wind to die down before they made the crossing."