Read full poem →Warless? war will die out late then. Will it ever?
late or soon?
Dictionary Entry
to stop existing or being used; to become extinct.
In a Sentence
“Many traditional crafts began to die out after the industrial revolution.”
Origin
From Middle English, from Old English 'dēaġan' meaning to cease living, combined with 'out'.
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “die out”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →That, tottering on the public way,
Die out in doting, dim decay,
Is it to you when all is past
Read full poem →If doom'd, indeed, this fever ceased,
To die out wholly, like a beast,
Forgetting all life's ill success
Read full poem →Anon at the dawn, all that trouble had withered from earth-- 325
Not so much, but I saw it die out in the day's tender birth;
In the gathered intensity brought to the gray of the hills;