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die off

/dahy-awf, -of/US // ˈdaɪˌɔf, -ˌɒf //

灭亡,死掉了,熄灭,死掉的

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a sudden, natural perishing of large numbers of a species, population, or community.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inrecede

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.