: a sudden sharp decline of a population of animals or plants that is not caused directly by human activity
died off; dying off; dies off
: to die sequentially either singly or in numbers so that the total number is greatly diminished
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Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
To set conditions for a kind of victory, Ukraine should prolong the great Russian die-off.
—David Axe, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
That kind of died off in the 1930s or Forties in the States, but in Japan, that’s still going strong.
—Justin Koreis, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2024
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Noun
The key reason for the die-off was a lack of food, Schulman-Janiger said.
—Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
To set conditions for a kind of victory, Ukraine should prolong the great Russian die-off.
—David Axe, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
Verb
The result could be that humans starve and die off due to a lack of available resources.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
That kind of died off in the 1930s or Forties in the States, but in Japan, that’s still going strong.
—Justin Koreis, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2024
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“Die-off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/die-off. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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