die out

verb

died out; dying out; dies out

intransitive verb

: to become extinct

Examples of die out in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The storm moved back east and intensified before making a second landfall in Africa and dying out. Jack Armstrong, The Arizona Republic, 1 July 2024 Scientists now believe some of the last woolly mammoths on Earth may have died out due to a sudden event, a departure from previous hypotheses about their extinction. Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 28 June 2024 One is the mass extinction caused by a meteorite slamming into the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, which caused most of the dinosaurs to die out. Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 11 Mar. 2024 By the end of the Cold War, the practice had died out, as U.S. forces were made up of volunteers rather than draftees and feminism was on the rise. Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2019 See all Example Sentences for die out 

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Word History

First Known Use

1853, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of die out was in 1853

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“Die out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/die%20out. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.

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