Dying

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. Present participle of die1.
  • adj. About to die: dying patients.
  • adj. Drawing to an end; declining: in the dying hours of the legislative session.
  • adj. Done or uttered just before death: a dying request.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Approaching death; about to die; moribund;
  • adj. Declining, or drawing to an end.
  • adj. Pertaining to the moments before death
  • adj. Failing to evoke laughter from the audience.
  • adj. Experiencing strong desire
  • n. Those who are currently expiring, moribund.
  • n. The process of approaching death; or, less precisely, death itself.
  • v. Present participle of die.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. In the act of dying; destined to death; mortal; perishable.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to dying or death
  • n. The act of expiring; passage from life to death; loss of life.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of expiring; loss of life; death.
  • Physically decaying; failing from life; approaching death or dissolution; moribund: as, a dying man; a dying tree.
  • Mortal; destined to death; perishable: as, dying bodies.
  • Drawing to a close; fading away; failing; languishing: as, the dying year; a dying light.
  • Given, uttered, or manifested just before death: as, dying words; a dying request; dying love.
  • Pertaining to or associated with death: as, a dying hour; a dying bed.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. in or associated with the process of passing from life or ceasing to be
  • n. the time when something ends
  • adj. eagerly desirous
  • Equivalent
    last    moribund    eager   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    mortal    perishable    moribund    fey    commorient   
    Verb Stem
    die    dye   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    allying    applying    belying    buying    complying    crying    decrying    defying    denying    drying   
    Same Context
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