die back

1. 1.

   suffer from a disease that kills shoots

   “The plants near the garage are dying back”

   Synonymsdie down

   Broadershrivel

Questions about die back

What does die back mean?

die back means "suffer from a disease that kills shoots".

What is another word for die back?

Close synonyms include die down. 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 back a common word?

die back 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.