Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective About to die.
- adjective Drawing to an end; declining.
- adjective Done or uttered just before death.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of expiring; passage from life to death; loss of life.
- adjective In the act of dying; destined to death; mortal; perishable.
- adjective Of or pertaining to dying or death
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Approaching
death ;about to die;moribund ; - adjective
Declining , or drawing to anend . - adjective Pertaining to the moments before
death - adjective stand-up comedy
Failing to evokelaughter from theaudience . - adjective Experiencing strong
desire - noun plurale tantum Those who are currently expiring, moribund.
- noun The process of approaching
death ; or, less precisely, death itself. - verb Present participle of
die .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective in or associated with the process of passing from life or ceasing to be
- noun the time when something ends
- adjective eagerly desirous
Etymologies
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Examples
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It's just awful for a young women and mother to be dying so young (which, of course, does not mean it's not awful for all others in the same or similar situations - that should go without saying). i feel sorry that a young person is going to die, but she courts the media so should expect the stick. * jade goody: dying* only on living! the irony
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I don't think you should stick pins when you're dying -- _dying_! "
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Give us a break Sarah, Nobody wants to kill off Grandma but services like Hospice care for the dying is a very important component of health care and helps families cope with the end of life issues that come up when Grandma is dying.
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But on the other hand, my grandmother dying is another once-in-a-lifetime event, and I'm essentially abandoning my mother to deal with it alone.
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My stomach gave an involuntary lurch at the word dying, but I tried not to show it.
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My stomach gave an involuntary lurch at the word dying, but I tried not to show it.
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Supposing, Andrew, that I did "cross over" -- I believe that's what you call dying, -- that I _did_ want to come back to see how you and the little Katie and Frederik were getting on, how do you think I could manage to do it?
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He also wrote out himself what he called his dying request to his children, in case he should die before his brother.
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I wasn't even sure what the word "dying" meant anymore….
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Barr teaches a class to help spread the skills of what she calls a dying art.
bilby commented on the word dying
"As for those I speak of, I pluck them as a wild fruit, native to this quarter of the earth,--fruit of old trees that have been dying ever since I was a boy and are not yet dead, frequented only by the wood-pecker and the squirrel, deserted now by the owner, who has not faith enough to look under their boughs." - 'Wild Apples', Henry David Thoreau.
December 14, 2007
bilby commented on the word dying
Not quite the end.
November 19, 2009