die off

die off
die off
[for a living thing] to perish one by one until there are no more. •

Most of the larger lizards died off eons ago.

It would be really bad if all the owls died off.

The cucumber blossoms all died off.

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{v.} To die one at a time. * /The flowers are dying off because there has been no rain./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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