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dying

/ˈdaɪ.ɪŋ/ · verb

Meaning

  1. To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
  2. To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
  3. To yearn intensely.
  4. To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
  5. To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
  6. To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
  7. To colour with dye, or as if with dye.
  8. The process of approaching death; loss of life; less precisely, death.
  9. (with "the") Those who are currently expiring, moribund.
  10. Approaching death; about to die; moribund.
  11. Declining, terminal, or drawing to an end.
  12. Pertaining to death, or the moments before death.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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