die down

VERB
  1. suffer from a disease that kills shoots
    The plants near the garage are dying back
  2. become progressively weaker
    the laughter died down
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How To Use die down In A Sentence

  • Keeping his expression somber, he waited for the polite applause to die down. Betrayed
  • After leaving my compadres (who made wiser parking choices) I hung around in the lot waiting for the traffic to die down.
  • The planet's shrouded surface has cooled, and this allowed the winds to die down and the fine dust to begin settling.
  • The music started to die down, and the king announced for everyone to retire for the night.
  • When the song ends and the hoots and hollers die down, Darren asks the crowd: ‘What do you want?’
  • It would die down for an instant, in response to these appeals, only to burst out afresh as certain groups of traders started the pandemonium again, by the wild outcrying of their offers. The Pit: A Story of Chicago
  • When indoor bulbs finish flowering, remove just the head and allow to die down naturally. The Sun
  • When indoor bulbs finish flowering, remove just the head and allow to die down naturally. The Sun
  • After flowering, strip fading flowers and leave the stem to die down. The Sun
  • Over the weekend, the birds will perch on trees all around the neighborhood and wait for the cacophony to die down.
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