trailed away
Faded into silence
Trailed away describes sound or speech that gradually fades, becoming quieter until it disappears entirely.
A voice trails away when the speaker loses confidence or drifts into thought: Her sentence trailed away as she noticed no one was listening.
The phrase suggests a slow diminishing rather than an abrupt stop.
- recedeMove back from
- tailed offGradually decreased to nothing
- diminuendoGradual decrease in loudness
- retreatSanctuary or withdrawal
- ellipsisMark indicating omitted words
echo · whisper · fade · dying breath · pause · waning · peter out · decline · stammering · hush · murmur · falter · dissolve · vanish · fading · reluctance · discontinuity · petered out
manner of ending
trailed awaycut off
Separated or disconnected
broke off · cut short · stopped dead · terminated · stopped short
volume/intensity trajectory
trailed awayswelled
Increased in volume
built up · crescendoed · intensified · amplified · mounted