"die down" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-die down.ogg [Australia] Forms: dies down [present, singular, third-person], dying down [participle, present], died down [participle, past], died down [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} die down (third-person singular simple present dies down, present participle dying down, simple past and past participle died down)
  1. (intransitive, idiomatic) To become less virulent or strong; to subside. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive Related terms: die back [verb], die off [verb], die out [verb] Translations (to become less virulent): laantua (Finnish), hiipua (Finnish), ჩაწყნარდა (čac̣q̇narda) (Georgian), síothlaigh (Irish), cessare (Italian), فروکش کردن (forukeš kardan) (Persian), ucichać [imperfective] (Polish), ucichnąć [perfective] (Polish), утиха́ть (utixátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), ути́хнуть (utíxnutʹ) [perfective] (Russian), yatışmak (Turkish)

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "to become less virulent",
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      "sense": "to become less virulent",
      "word": "cessare"
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      "roman": "forukeš kardan",
      "sense": "to become less virulent",
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