die down

phrasal verb

died down; dying down; dies down
: to gradually become less strong
The wind will die down in the evening.
She waited for the noise to die down before she started singing.

Examples of die down in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web When the flames died down three days after the uprising began, at least 18 people were dead, 400 were injured and property damage exceeded more than $100 million. C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 24 Feb. 2024 Storms are expected to continue into Monday, but die down in the afternoon, the National Weather Service told The Bee. Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 5 Feb. 2024 Even more surprising, sales continued to accelerate after the holidays, into the winter and spring of 2023, and have never died down. Alexandra Alter, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2023 The storage is used to bottle wind and solar power and distribute it back into grids after dark and when the wind dies down. Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023 That case is pending. Before Thursday, however, drama over Hobbs' nominees had largely died down this year. Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 1 Mar. 2024 But the clouds parted, the rain stopped, and the wind died down to a mere breeze when the remaining seven buses drove slowly through the cheering crowd on their way to the airport. Nhat V. Meyer, The Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2024 Calls for Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon to leave may have died down, but that’s not stopping executives from departing the storied investment bank. Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2024 At one point, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department advised the senior director of conservation to move off the island for a few days and wait for passions to die down. Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2023

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“Die down.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/die%20down. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

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