die out
— phrasal verb with die uk/daɪ/us/daɪ/verb [ I ] present participle dying, past tense and past participle died
B2 to become less common and finally stop existing:
Dinosaurs died out millions of years ago.
It's a custom that is beginning to die out.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Death and dying
- be pushing up (the) daisies idiom
- bereave
- bite
- bury
- buy the farm idiom
- deceased
- depart
- done
- drop
- expire
- foot
- gone
- inquest
- peg
- posthumous
- road kill
- SIDS
- strike
- sudden infant death syndrome
- the disappeared
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