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    [Noun]  | "die-off" | \ ˈdī-ˌȯf \


    1: a sudden sharp decline of a population of animals or plants that is not caused directly by human activity


    Origin: 1936 ;

    [Verb]  | "die off" | \ ˈdī-ˈȯf \


    1: to die sequentially either singly or in numbers so that the total number is greatly diminished


    Origin: 1697 ;

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     [ "die off" ]

    1: Phrasal verb which designates a massive loss of life, for example a dying population in the animal or plant kingdom. Either by man's intervention (like genocide), or the result of devastating environmental factors (e.g. natural disasters). It may also be used in an abstract sense, especially in the form of an insult .

      * e.g.,  ... __If China continues its deforestation program for the sake of increasing the industry, the Yunnan Malva plant species could die off._ "Why doesn't your kind just die off?" 

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