DIE DOWN Synonyms: 54 Similar and Opposite Words

die (down)

verb

Definition of die (down)

as in to taper off

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The precipitation is expected to taper off Thursday evening, according to the weather service.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
How long tapering off testosterone takes Recovery is not uniform.

— Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of taper off

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The definitive study of feedback, Avraham Kluger and Angelo DeNisi’s meta-analysis of 23,663 observations, found that over a third of feedback interventions decreased performance.

— Zaharia-Gabriel Sidere, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
These include gravitational forces, commonly known as G-forces, that increase or decrease the pressure riders feel on their bodies during rapid acceleration and deceleration.

— Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of decrease

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Advertisement The following day, in a public conversation moderated by renowned journalist Christiane Amanpour, President Nataša Pirc Musar of Slovenia, former Irish President Mary Robinson and I reflected on the choices before humanity.

— Halla Tómasdóttir, Time, 16 Oct. 2026
While crude oil prices have somewhat moderated despite the Iran war reescalating recently, refining constraints have kept gasoline and diesel costs high.

— Jason Ma, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026

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Winds were expected to subside across much of Northern California on Friday, but gusty conditions were forecast to continue in southern portions of PG&E’s service territory into Saturday morning.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 16 Oct. 2026
But within a couple years, as the pandemic eased and community-police tension subsided, Bolingbrook Police Chief Mike Rompa started using his village purchasing card – known as a p-card – in a different way than others with the same cards.

— Irika Sargent, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of subside

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There was little understanding of how contagion might spread, but the civic leaders intuited that physical distancing measures could lessen its effect.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2026
Employees will lessen amount in cold hold and mark it for four-hour disposal.

— NWA Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026

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