dying
About 18.31 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Approaching death; about to die; moribund.
The dying dog was put out of his misery with a single shot!
- adjective Declining, terminal, or drawing to an end.
In the dying moments of daylight I glimpsed a sail on the horizon.
- adjective Pertaining to death, or the moments before death.
His dying words were of his mother.
- noun The process of approaching death; loss of life; death.
- verb present participle and gerund of die
- verb present participle and gerund of dye
Similar words
moribund declining death expiring anxious last eager demise guttering deathbed
Often followed by
of in and man to for out from on
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