die away

1. 1.

   become less in amount or intensity

   “The storm abated”

   “The rain let up after a few hours”

   Synonymsabatelet upslack offslack

   Broaderdecrease

Questions about die away

What does die away mean?

die away means "become less in amount or intensity".

What is another word for die away?

Close synonyms include abate, let up, slack off, slack. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is die away a common word?

die away is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.