to become quieter or weaker and finally stop
And her voice saying'please give us a ride' gradually died away in the distance.
As the aftershocks of an earthquake unsettle a city, the great memories trembled inside him and only gradually died away.
The cries of the prisoners gradually die away.
The echoes gradually died away.
This terrible continuing cry lasted for twenty or thirty minutes, gradually dying away, as one after another could no longer withstand the cold and exposure.
dies away
dying away
died away
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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