Dying

/ˈdaɪ.ɪŋ/ · adjective

Meaning

Approaching death; about to die; moribund..

Definitions by Sense

1. Approaching death; about to die; moribund.
2. Declining, terminal, or drawing to an end.
3. Pertaining to death, or the moments before death.
4. The process of approaching death; loss of life; death.
5. present participle and gerund of die
6. (now nonstandard) present participle and gerund of dye

Example Sentences

The dying dog was put out of his misery with a single shot!

a dying fire

The battlefield was littered with the dead and dying.

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.”

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.

Just as with other recent reports by various bodies on HS2 and the ticket office closures, the National Audit Office's effort on the rail reform process is a devastating exposé of the failings and floundering of a dying administration that has failed to understand the value of having an efficient rail network.

His dying words were of his mother.

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