DYING — Definition of DYING
verb
1
To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
2
To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
He died a hero's death.
3
To yearn intensely.
I'm dying for a packet of crisps.
4
To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother.
noun
1
The process of approaching death; loss of life; less precisely, death.
noun
1
(with "the") Those who are currently expiring, moribund.
The battlefield was littered with the dead and dying.
adjective
1
Approaching death; about to die; moribund.
The dying dog was put out of his misery with a single shot!
2
Declining, terminal, or drawing to an end.
In the dying moments of daylight I glimpsed a sail on the horizon.
3
Pertaining to death, or the moments before death.
His dying words were of his mother.
📚 Source: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/die
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