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die out

verb

  1. to become extinct
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Wiktionary

verb

  1. To become extinct.

    “The dinosaurs died out a long time ago.”

    “The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway,[…].”

  2. To cease gradually.

    “The prejudice has died out.”

    “However, apart from all this, the Chief was a grand old man, belonging to a class of individualists which seems to be dying out in these days, when standard behaviour seems to be as prevalent as standard designs.”