die away

The cacophony of an independence referendum campaign which had echoed through Scotland for three years had died away and Alex Salmond, so often the embodiment of pugnacious self-confidence, appeared pale and drained.

As a poisoned rat dies away from the bait box, Predator Free Wellington needs the autopsies to monitor effectiveness.

"It wasn't going to die away - it was something bigger than that," Mr Whitworth said.

There’s a Vietnamese superstition: If you die away from home, your soul will become restless and won’t leave for the afterlife.

Marked ersterbend in the score — or “dying away” — these long final notes of the Ninth hung like last words, or the closing colors of a long sunset.