die down

2 definitions found

die down - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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"

die down - 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