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die out

verb

  1. (of a family, race, etc) to die one after another until few or none are left
  2. to become extinct, esp after a period of gradual decline
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Gradually become extinct, as in As technology advances, and Western culture spreads, many folk traditions are dying out . [Mid-1800s]
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The sport may appear to be dying out.

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Not the dog bears, Hemicyoninae, who emerged before and lived through the Miocene, nor the bear dogs, Amphicyonidae, which died out by the late Miocene.

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And Charlie doesn't think the platform is "dying out" any time soon, years on from his flutter with fame.

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Lynx were once a native species in Scotland, but they died out several hundred years ago.

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Under an enormous, white tent that covered the death camp entrance, the director of the Auschwitz museum, Piotr Cywinski, issued a plea to protect the memory of what had happened, as the survivors died out.

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