die out
— Phrasal Verb with die /daɪ/ verb (present participle dying, past tense and past participle died)Definition
› to become more and more rare and then disappear completely: Dinosaurs died out about 65 million years ago.
(Definition of die out from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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