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die off

[for a living thing] to perish one by one until there are no more. Most of the larger lizards died off eons ago. It would be really bad if all the owls died off. The cucumber blossoms all died off.

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No one was then thinking of the king, who, leaning on his elbow at his window, had sadly seen pass away all that light, and heard that noise die off -- no, not one, if it was not that unknown of the hostelry des Medici, whom we have seen go out, enveloped in his cloak. Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context There are fourteen water-mills, six steam-engines, and a galvanic battery, always a-working upon it, and they can't make it fast enough, though the men work so hard that they die off, and the widows is pensioned directly, with twenty pound a-year for each of the children, and a premium of fifty for twins. Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boy's Progress by Dickens, Charles View in context It may cause other parties interested to become lax about their interests; and people may die off, and points may drag themselves out of memory, and many things may smoothly happen that are convenient enough. Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context			didn't didn't care a whit didn't care too hard didn't exchange more than three words with didn't invent gunpowder die die a death die a natural death die away die back die behind the wheel die by die by own hand die down die for die hard die in die in boots die is cast die laughing die of die of a broken heart die of boredom die of curiosity die of throat trouble die off die on die out die with boots on differ differ about differ from differ in difference difference of opinion different different as night and day different strokes Different strokes for different folks differentiate differentiate between differentiate from difficult difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer diffuse through dig dig at dig deep dig down dig for dig heels in			Die Kacke Kommt Immer Spontan Die KarstadtQuelle Versicherungen Die Kelders Cave 1 Die Kinder Vom Bahnhof Soho Die Kleinste Lanparty Frankens Die Kreuzritter Allianz Die Krieger Der Unendlichen Finsternis Die Krieger Des Lichts die laughing die like flies die like flies die like flies die like flies die line die lines die lubricant die match Die Neue Sachlichkeit Die Nibelungenlied Die Nibelungenlied Die Nicht Mehr Wollten die nipple die of die of a broken heart die of boredom die of curiosity die of throat trouble die off Die Öffentliche Verwaltung Die Offizierschule der Luftwaffe die on die on feet die on feet die on feet die on feet die on the vine die on the vine die on the vine die on the vine die on the vine die opening die out die out die out die out die out Die Penetrant Test Die Person Unter Mir die radius Die Reise Endet Irgendwo Die Ritter der Kokosnuss die scalping Die Schiachaste Seite Im Netz Die Schweizer Fussball Community die set die shoe Die Skorbut Boser Hund die slide

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