| 单词 | to die out |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto die out to die out 1. Of a family or race (of animals or plants): To be (gradually) extinguished by death; to become extinct. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > be non-existent [verb (intransitive)] > end or cease to exist > of a family or race root1827 to die out1865 1865 J. R. Seeley Ecce Homo (1866) iv. 38 His house soon dies out. 1866 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 306 So sad that one's family should die out. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 163 Barbarous nations when they are introduced by Europeans to vice die out. 1887 F. B. Zincke Some Materials Hist. Wherstead 173 They never bore any more fruit, and gradually died out. 2. To go out, or come to an end (gradually); to pass away or become extinct by degrees. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > be non-existent [verb (intransitive)] > end or cease to exist tirec725 endOE forfareOE goc1175 fleec1200 to wend awayc1225 diea1240 to-melta1240 to pass awaya1325 flit1340 perishc1350 vanisha1375 decorre1377 cease1382 dispend1393 failc1400 overshakec1425 surcease1439 adrawc1450 fall1523 decease1538 define1562 fleet1576 expire1595 evanish1597 extinguish1599 extirp1606 disappear1623 evaporatea1631 trans-shift1648 annihilate1656 exolve1657 cancela1667 to pass off1699 to burn out, forth1832 spark1845 to die out1853 to come, go, etc. by the board1859 sputter1964 the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)] > specifically of things, actions, or processes > gradually to die away1680 sink1718 to die off1722 to burn out, forth1832 to die down1836 peter1846 fizz1847 to fizzle out1847 to die out1853 poof1915 down1924 to wind down1969 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > be at an end [verb (intransitive)] > come to an end, terminate, or expire > gradually to die away1680 to die off1722 to die down1836 peter1846 to die out1853 to wind down1952 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxvii. 219 The lard-lamp died out in the course of the night. 1872 E. A. Freeman Gen. Sketch European Hist. xii. §21. 232 In England villainage was on the whole dying out. 1885 Truth 11 June 936/2 Public interest had flagged and gradually died out. 1887 Athenæum 7 May 603/3 To tell how the religions of Greece and Rome died out. 1892 G. Du Maurier Peter Ibbetson 43 The last red streak dies out of the wet west. < as lemmas |
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