moribund
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- adjective Approaching death; about to die.
- adjective On the verge of becoming obsolete: moribund customs; a moribund way of life.
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- For the Cause of Liberty here, we consider, was the culminating moment; Elsass, Lorraine and the Three Bishoprics lying in their quasi-moribund condition; Austrian claims of Compensation ceasing to be visions of the heated brain, and gaining some footing on the Earth as facts. — History of Friedrich II of Prussia
- No reader who has made acquaintance with Polish History can well doubt but Poland was now dead or moribund, and had well deserved to die. — History of Friedrich II of Prussia
- I will confess that I stand in need of such a remedy for the moribund quandary I find myself in. — Asimov's Science Fiction
- Even now, with the war gone moribund, the place was going full blast. — Petty Pewter Gods
- The world began to twitch and shrug like a moribund giant slowly returning to life. — An Ill Fate Marshalling
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- Latin moribundus, from morī, to die; see mer- in Indo-European roots.
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/ (môrˈə-bŭndˌ, mŏrˈ-)/
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