die away

verb dies away · dying away · died away

1. intransitive To die gradually or slowly.
2. intransitive To diminish or wane; to cease gradually. So thick a haze o’erspreads the sky, They cannot see the sun on high: The wind hath blown a gale all day; At evening it hath died away.
3. obsolete, rare, transitive To cause to die; to do away with. By little and little, in such a gradual sensible death[…]God dies away in us, as I may say, all human satisfactions, in order to subdue his poor creatures to Himself.