die down

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
die down
    v 1: suffer from a disease that kills shoots; "The plants near
         the garage are dying back" [syn: {die back}, {die down}]
    2: become progressively weaker; "the laughter died down"
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
26 Moby Thesaurus words for "die down":
      abate, bate, calm, calm down, cease, disappear, dwindle, ease off,
      ebb, fall, halt, let up, lull, moderate, molder, pacify, quiesce,
      quiet, quieten, recede, slacken, soothe, stop, subside,
      tranquilize, wane
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