The young men acknowledged, in love letters, that they died for Rebecca.
Tatler.
5. To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin.
6. To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away.
Blemishes may die away and disappear amidst the brightness.
Spectator.
7. (Arch.) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.