单词 | to die away |
释义 | > as lemmasto die away to die away 1. To pass away from life gradually; to faint or swoon away. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > unconsciousness > lose consciousness [verb (intransitive)] > faint or swoon swotherc1000 swowa1250 swoonc1290 sweltc1330 trance1340 to fall on, in swowa1375 swapc1386 sound1393 dwelea1400 swaya1400 faintc1440 owmawt1440 swalmc1440 sweamc1440 syncopize1490 dwalm?a1513 swarf1513 swound1530 cothe1567 sweb1599 to go away1655 to die away1707 go1768 sink1769 sile1790 to pass out1915 to black out1935 1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 62 We see several Plants grow dry, and dy away. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 3. ¶7 She fainted and dyed away at the Sight. 1713 J. Addison Cato iv. i I die away with horror at the thought. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. xiv. 401 Oh! had he..in his friend's embraces dy'd away! 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound ii. ii. 73 Droops dying away On its mate's music-panting bosom. 1853 R. W. Browne Greek Classical Lit. (1857) 138 My feeble pulse forgot to play, I fainted, sank, and died away. 2. To diminish gradually in force or activity and so come to an end; to fade away, cease or disappear gradually. ΘΚΠ 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 1680 W. Hacke Coll. Orig. Voy. (1699) II. 15 The wind in the mean time dying away, I was becalmed. 1706 A. Bedford Temple Musick ix. 172 The Voices..seem to die away. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 427. ⁋2 Thus groundless Stories die away. 1792 S. Rogers Pleasures Mem. ii. 91 At his feet the thunder dies away. 1837 B. Disraeli Venetia II. 99 The day died away, and still he was wanting. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxv. 81 The breeze died away at night. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxiv. 175 The direct shock of each avalanche had died away. 3. Architecture and Carpentry. To pass or merge gradually into the adjacent structure. Cf. 12b. ΚΠ 1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding v. 76 To be 2 feet deep amidships and to extend across until they die away with rise of floor. 1873 J. Fergusson in H. B. Tristram Land of Moab 373 The arch must have died away against the towers. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > bring to ruin or put an end to undoc950 shendOE forfarea1000 endc1000 to do awayOE aquenchc1175 slayc1175 slayc1175 stathea1200 tinea1300 to-spilla1300 batec1300 bleschea1325 honisha1325 leesea1325 wastec1325 stanch1338 corrumpa1340 destroy1340 to put awayc1350 dissolvec1374 supplanta1382 to-shend1382 aneantizec1384 avoidc1384 to put outa1398 beshenda1400 swelta1400 amortizec1405 distract1413 consumec1425 shelfc1425 abroge1427 downthringc1430 kill1435 poisonc1450 defeat1474 perish1509 to blow away1523 abrogatea1529 to prick (also turn, pitch) over the perka1529 dash?1529 to bring (also send) to (the) pot1531 put in the pot1531 wipea1538 extermine1539 fatec1540 peppera1550 disappoint1563 to put (also set) beside the saddle1563 to cut the throat of1565 to throw (also turn, etc.) over the perch1568 to make a hand of (also on, with)1569 demolish1570 to break the neck of1576 to make shipwreck of1577 spoil1578 to knock on (in) the head (also rarely at head)1579 cipher1589 ruinate1590 to cut off by the shins1592 shipwreck1599 exterminate1605 finish1611 damnify1612 ravel1614 braina1616 stagger1629 unrivet1630 consummate1634 pulverizea1640 baffle1649 devil1652 to blow up1660 feague1668 shatter1683 cook1708 to die away1748 to prove fatal (to)1759 to knock up1764 to knock (or kick) the hindsight out or off1834 to put the kibosh on1834 to cook (rarely do) one's goose1835 kibosh1841 to chaw up1843 cooper1851 to jack up1870 scuttle1888 to bugger up1891 jigger1895 torpedo1895 on the fritz1900 to put paid to1901 rot1908 down and out1916 scuppera1918 to put the skids under1918 stonker1919 liquidate1924 to screw up1933 cruel1934 to dig the grave of1934 pox1935 blow1936 to hit for six1937 to piss up1937 to dust off1938 zap1976 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. xlv. 179 By little and little, in such a gradual sensible death..God dies away in us, as I may say, all human satisfactions, in order to subdue his poor creatures to Himself. < as lemmas |
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