die off
灭亡,死掉了,熄灭,死掉的
Definitions
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- : a sudden, natural perishing of large numbers of a species, population, or community.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Yves Albarello, MP of Seine-et-Marne, said the gunmen told police they were ready to “die as martyrs.”
Asserting our right to free speech is the only to ensure that 12 people did not die in vain.
Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.
A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.
The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.
"A camp-fire would hardly flash and die out like that, Sarge," he answered thoughtfully.
A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.
But men, through neglecting the rules of health, pass quickly to old age, and die before reaching that term.
I cannot believe that God would think it necessary to come on earth as a man, and die on the Cross.
With three or four more wounds, and the words with which he aided her to die, he finished with her.