dying

Plural: dyings

Noun

• The process of passing out of existence; death.
• the time when something ends
  • "a dying of old hopes"
• The process of approaching death; loss of life; death.

Verb

• pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
• suffer or face the pain of death
• be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame
  • "I was dying with embarrassment when my little lie was discovered"
• stop operating or functioning
• feel indifferent towards
• languish as with love or desire
  • "She dying for a cigarette"
  • "I was dying to leave"
• cut or shape with a die
• to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player
• lose sparkle or bouquet
• disappear or come to an end
• suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense)
• present participle and gerund of die
• present participle and gerund of dye

Adjective

• in or associated with the process of passing from life or ceasing to be
  • "a dying man"
  • "his dying wish"
  • "a dying fire"
  • "a dying civilization"

Adjective Satellite

• eagerly desirous
  • "dying to hear who won"

Adj

• Approaching death; about to die; moribund.
• Declining, terminal, or drawing to an end.
• Pertaining to death, or the moments before death.

Examples

• He knew his chances of winning were dying with each passing turn.
• In the dying moments of daylight I glimpsed a sail on the horizon.

Synonyms

anxious, become flat, break, break down, buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, conk out, croak, death, decease, demise, die, die out, drop dead, exit, expire, fail, give out, give way, give-up the ghost, go, go bad, kick the bucket, pall, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it

Antonyms

be born, birth, nascent

Anagrams of dying