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DIE BACK
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Suffer from a disease that kills shoots
Example:
The plants near the garage are dying back
Synonyms:
die back; die down
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "die back" is one way to...):
shrink; shrivel; shrivel up; wither (wither, as with a loss of moisture)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
dieback (a disease of plants characterized by the gradual dying of the young shoots starting at the tips and progressing to the larger branches)
