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die down

to fade to almost nothing; to decrease gradually. The fire died down and went out. As the applause died down, a child came on stage with an armload of roses for the singer.

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The influence that had passed into Clare like an excitation from the sky did not die down. Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context He had planted a great many potatoes, and his potatoes, as Levin had seen driving past, were already past flowering and beginning to die down, while Levin's were only just coming into flower. Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context I haven't examined half a dozen hands in the last half dozen years; you see, the people got to joking about it, and I stopped to let the talk die down. Pudd'n'head Wilson by Twain, Mark View in context More results

? References in classic literature

The influence that had passed into Clare like an excitation from the sky did not die down.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context

He had planted a great many potatoes, and his potatoes, as Levin had seen driving past, were already past flowering and beginning to die down, while Levin's were only just coming into flower.

Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

I haven't examined half a dozen hands in the last half dozen years; you see, the people got to joking about it, and I stopped to let the talk die down.

Pudd'n'head Wilson by Twain, Mark View in context

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