dying
/ˈdaɪ.ɪŋ/ · verb
Meaning
- To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
- To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
- To yearn intensely.
- To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
- To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
- To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
- To colour with dye, or as if with dye.
- The process of approaching death; loss of life; less precisely, death.
- (with "the") Those who are currently expiring, moribund.
- Approaching death; about to die; moribund.
- Declining, terminal, or drawing to an end.
- Pertaining to death, or the moments before death.
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