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dying (root: die)

 : 
Adjective, Verb (usu participle)
 : 
dy=ing

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun dying has 1 sense

Adjective dying has 2 senses

OXFORD DICTIONARY

dying, adj. connected with, or at the time of, death (his dying words).

Idiom
dying oath an oath made at, or with the solemnity proper to, death. to one's dying day for the rest of one's life.
Etymology
pres. part. of DIE(1)

THESAURUS

dying

abatement, abridgment, alleviation, annihilation, attenuation, bad, bane, biological death, brittle, burning out, burnout, capricious, cessation of life, changeable, choking, clinical death, comedown, contraction, controlling, corruptible, crossing the bar, curtains, dampening, damping, death, death knell, debasement, debt of nature, decadence, decadency, decease, deciduous, declension, declination, decline, declining, decrease, decrement, decrescence, deduction, deflation, deformation, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demise, demotion, departure, depravation, depravedness, depreciation, depression, derogation, descent, despaired of, deterioration, devolution, diminishing, diminishment, diminution, dissolution, done for, doom, dousing, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward trend, drop, dwindling, dying off, ebb, ebb of life, ebbing, effeteness, end, end of life, ending, ephemeral, eternal rest, evanescent, exit, expiration, expiring, extenuation, extinction, extinguishment, facing death, fade-out, fading, failing, failure, failure of nerve, fall, falling-off, fickle, final summons, finger of death, fire fighting, flame-out, fleeting, flitting, fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive, given up, going, going off, going out, grave, hand of death, hopeless, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, in articulo mortis, in extremis, incapable of life, inconstant, insubstantial, involution, jaws of death, knell, languishment, lapse, last debt, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, leaving life, lessening, letup, loss of life, loss of tone, low, lowering, making an end, miniaturization, mitigation, momentary, moribund, mortal, mutable, near death, nondurable, nonpermanent, nonviable, parting, passing, passing away, passing over, perishable, perishing, putting out, quenching, quietus, receding, reduction, regression, relaxation, release, rest, retiring, retreating, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, reward, sagging, scaling down, sentence of death, shades of death, shadow of death, short-lived, shrinking, simplicity, sinking, sleep, slippage, slipping, slipping away, slump, smotheration, smothering, snuffing, somatic death, stifling, subtraction, summons of death, temporal, temporary, terminal, terminal case, transient, transitive, transitory, undurable, unenduring, unstable, volatile, wane, waning, weakening

ROGET THESAURUS

dying

Death

N death, decease, demise, dissolution, departure, obit, release, rest, quietus, fall, loss, bereavement, mortality, morbidity, end of life &c, cessation of life &c, loss of life, extinction of life, ebb of life, death warrant, death watch, death rattle, death bed, stroke of death, agonies of death, shades of death, valley of death, jaws of death, hand of death, last breath, last gasp, last agonies, dying day, dying breath, dying agonies, chant du cygne, rigor mortis, Stygian shore, King of terrors, King Death, Death, doom, Hell's grim Tyrant, euthanasia, break up of the system, natural death, natural decay, sudden death, violent death, untimely end, watery grave, debt of nature, suffocation, asphyxia, fatal disease, death blow, necrology, bills of mortality, obituary, death song, dead, lifeless, deceased, demised, departed, defunct, extinct, late, gone, no more, exanimate, inanimate, out of the world, taken off, released, departed this life, dead and gone, dead as a doornail, dead as a doorpost, dead as a mutton, dead as a herring, dead as nits, launched into eternity, gone to one's eternal reward, gone to meet one's maker, pushing up daisies, gathered to one's fathers, numbered with the dead, dying, moribund, morient, hippocratic, in articulo, in extremis, in the jaws of death, in the agony of death, going off, aux abois, one one's last legs, on one's death bed, at the point of death, at death's door, at the last gasp, near one's end, given over, booked, with one foot in the grave, tottering on the brink of the grave, stillborn, mortuary, deadly, post obit, post mortem, life ebbs, life fails, life hangs by a thread, one's days are numbered, one's hour is come, one's race is run, one's doom is sealed, Death knocks at the door, Death stares one in the face, the breath is out of the body, the grave closes over one, sic itur ad astra, de mortuis nil nisi bonum, dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, honesta mors turpi vita potior, in adamantine chains shall death be bound, mors ultima linea rerum est, ominia mors aequat, Spake the grisly Terror, the lone couch of this everlasting sleep, nothing is certain but death and taxes.

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