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die-off
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die-offnoun
The act or process of dying off; extinction.
Etymology: From die off.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of die-off in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of die-off in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of die-off in a Sentence
If we have recurring drought and it comes back strong after the El Nino, we predict we are going to have a lot more tree mortality, if drought persists and we lose forest, it will be replaced with something. Typically when forests get too dry and they die off, usually shrub lands and grasslands do the replacing.
Over the 100 to 200 million years before this die-off event there was a large amount of life on the planet, but after this event a huge portion died off, however, instead of recovering like more recent mass extinctions, the amount of life on the planet or size of the biosphere stayed small for the following billion years of Earths historyabout two billion to one billion years ago.
We've been watching the numbers go up, then kind of go down, then kind of go back up, that could be having to do with population and mating. As they all peak and mate, they slowly die off, then they start to grow back up again.
The real truth is those people are idiots, there's always going to be people who are afraid and unaware and trying to hold on to what was before. But those people die off like dinosaurs. I think the goal is to pay them no mind, march forward and embrace the growth that makes us human.
If drought persists and we lose forest, it will be replaced with something. Typically when forests get too dry and they die off, usually shrub lands and grasslands do the replacing.
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