Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth 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.
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.
Wiktionary
- adj. Approaching death; about to die; moribund;
- adj. Declining, or drawing to an end.
- adj. Pertaining to the moments before death
- adj. stand-up comedy Failing to evoke laughter from the audience.
- adj. Experiencing strong desire
- n. plurale tantum Those who are currently expiring, moribund.
- n. The process of approaching death; or, less precisely, death itself.
- v. present participle of die.
GNU Webster's 1913
- 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.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. in or associated with the process of passing from life or ceasing to be
- n. the time when something ends
- adj. eagerly desirous
Etymologies
- die + -ing (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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”
“I don't think you should stick pins when you're dying -- _dying_! ”
“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.”
“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.”
“My stomach gave an involuntary lurch at the word dying, but I tried not to show it.”
“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?”
“He also wrote out himself what he called his dying request to his children, in case he should die before his brother.”
“I wasn't even sure what the word "dying" meant anymore….”
“Anything the Simons can do to cut the cost of production puts them ahead of the game in what they call a dying industry.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dying’.
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RELI - words with Biblical connotations
Words in the Bible evoking biblical stories or with special spiritual meaning. Proper names have been reduced to the minimum.
ark, judgement, holy, saint, baptism, spirit, love, eternal, altar, balsam, covenant, flood and 1115 more...
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Sardanapalian
sardanapalian, villain, breathe, legion, melt, death, juliet, dying, endless, breathtaking, devil, vis-à-vis and 13 more...
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National Library Agenda Summit
nla2006, summit, agenda, library, ala, diversity, education, learning, continuous, scan, environmental, plan and 646 more...
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No Dearth of Deadly Designations
catafalque, cenotaph, necropolis, sepulcher, sarcophagus, mausoleum, reliquary, ossuary, necrosis, cadaver, cadaverous, pyre and 103 more...
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hard to sense
somewhat, somewhere, elsewhere, whereby, likewise, spite, ever, along, otherwise, whatever, whichever, hitherto and 116 more...
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Chainlink's Words
hat, opalescent, opal, emerald, sapphire, scythe, carnival, calliope, brilliant, awesome, feather, fantastic and 268 more...
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Cage
cage, depart, nothing, void, strain, unconscious, never, alone, floor, God, hell, winter and 219 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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iRosaceae
An ode to apples. I am much indebted to 'Wild Apples' which, though probably not likely to change your life and improve your productivity at the sausage factory, will enthrall you with half an hou...
rosaceae, apple, maelon, crab, jonathon, eden, temptation, clan lamont, eye, sward, pomona, granny smith and 135 more...
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Probe~ation
An obnoxious and ridiculous madlib list where verbish '-ing' words fill in the blank wherein the blank is a call for a beating.
For example:
"You're ________in' for a brus...searching, looking, hunting, seeking, questing, exploring, asking, inquiring, snooping, poking, probing, scouting and 262 more...
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Tunie: And the Band Played Waltzing M...
I used to sing this as a lullaby to my spawn—till said spawn grew big enough to understand the words, and asked me to sing something else.
Written by Eric Bogle, c. 1971.
...billabong, ghosts, no one, fewer, the call, question, what are they mar..., forgotten war, forgotten, sore, stiff, bent and 66 more...
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Wordy Rappinghood's types of words
papers, books, tv, crooks, comfort, peace, fighting, cease, nuance, skill, romance, stupid and 18 more...
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Tunie: No Man's Land
By Eric Bogle.
Well, how'd you do, Private Willie McBride,
D'you mind if I sit down here by your graveside?
I'll rest for a while in the warm summer sun,
Been walking...again, vain, dying, killing, shame, glory, sorrow, suffering, end, war, the cause, why and 47 more...
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illness, owies and other boo-boos
antidote, laudanum, frostbite, plasters, pallor, dying, demented, drugged, suicidal, mortal, autopsy, delirious and 9 more...
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Things I love
Everything I've ever held an interest in.
Literature, science, Physics, Membrane Theory, String Theory, Relativity, Experimentation, Poetry, expression, art, music, fugue and 26 more...
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Halloweenie: Down in the Ground Where...
By the Pogues, on their CD "Red Roses for Me."
Hello boys I've been away
On a bit of a holiday
To the land where the rivers freely flow
And the cattle roam on the wil...devil, ghost, bar, skunk, drunk, corpse, putrefying, slammed, moor, shore, dunes, stare and 28 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for dying.
bilby Not quite the end. Nov 19, 2009
bilby "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. Dec 14, 2007