DIE OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does die out mean? 

• DIE OUT (verb)
  The verb DIE OUT has 2 senses:

1. become extinct

2. cut or shape with a die

  Familiarity information: DIE OUT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIE OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become extinct

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

die off; die out

Context example:

Dinosaurs died out

Hypernyms (to "die out" is one way to...):

disappear; go away; vanish (get lost, as without warning or explanation)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cut or shape with a die

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

die; die out

Context example:

Die out leather for belts

Hypernyms (to "die out" is one way to...):

cut out (form and create by cutting out)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

So painful a scandal may well be allowed to die out.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When we were alone and had heard the last of the footsteps die out up the road, we silently, and as if by ordered intention, followed the Professor to the tomb.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"I suspect that if their numbers in a cave fall, they can't hunt in groups anymore and might die out even if some of them don't get caught by hunters," Dinets said.

(Snakes Hunt in Groups, Study Suggests, VOA)

We stood so, a long time; long enough for me to see the white marks of my fingers die out of the deep red of his cheek, and leave it a deeper red.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Couldn't we invent a rich relation, who shall obligingly die out there in Germany, and leave him a tidy little fortune? said Laurie, when they began to pace up and down the long drawing room, arm in arm, as they were fond of doing, in memory of the chateau garden.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)