dying

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dyings

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

1. 1.Approaching death; about to die; moribund.

   • The battlefield was littered with the dead and dying.
   • The dying dog was put out of his misery with a single shot!
   • The face of the dying man in the lingchi video monotonously evokes Maria Falconetti in Carl Theodor Dreyer ’s 1928 “Passion of Joan of Arc.”

2. 2.Declining, terminal, or drawing to an end.

   • In the dying moments of daylight I glimpsed a sail on the horizon.
   • The dieselisation of this line has not been, as is sometimes the case, a means of reviving a dying branch, but an improving hand to a healthy service.

3. 3.Pertaining to death, or the moments before death.

   • His dying words were of his mother.

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Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.The process of approaching death; loss of life; death.

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.present participle and gerund of die

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