"die off" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-die off.ogg [Australia] Forms: dies off [present, singular, third-person], dying off [participle, present], died off [participle, past], died off [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} die off (third-person singular simple present dies off, present participle dying off, simple past and past participle died off)
  1. To suffer a series of deaths; to die one by one; to progressively become extinct. (If a group of plants, animals, or people dies off, the entire group dies over a period of time.) Synonyms: die out#Verb Derived forms: die-off [noun], dieoff [noun] Related terms: die back [verb], kill off [verb] Translations (to become extinct): formorti (Esperanto), dēmorior (Latin), emorior (Latin), вымира́ть (vymirátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), вы́мереть (výmeretʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), до́хнуть (dóxnutʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), передо́хнуть (peredóxnutʹ) [derogatory, perfective] (Russian), dö ut (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-die_off-en-verb-zoamSrhO Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English links with manual fragments, English phrasal verbs with particle (off) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 63 6 31 Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 62 8 29 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (off): 59 14 27 Disambiguation of 'to become extinct': 60 34 6
  2. To become defunct or nonexistent. Synonyms: die out#Verb
    Sense id: en-die_off-en-verb-O5Ir-CHn
  3. Of music, noise, etc., to reduce in volume until no longer audible. Synonyms: die down#Verb
    Sense id: en-die_off-en-verb-LFAHyZXl

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "to become extinct",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "to become extinct",
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      "sense": "to become extinct",
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