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Meaning of dying

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

dying

Pronunciation:/ˈdaɪ.ɪŋ/

verb

Definitions

  1. To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.

  2. To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).

    Example: He died a hero's death.

  3. To yearn intensely.

    Example: I'm dying for a packet of crisps.

  4. To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.

    Example: The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother.

verb

Definitions

  1. To colour with dye, or as if with dye.

noun

Definitions

  1. The process of approaching death; loss of life; less precisely, death.

noun

Definitions

  1. (with "the") Those who are currently expiring, moribund.

    Example: The battlefield was littered with the dead and dying.

adjective

Definitions

  1. Approaching death; about to die; moribund.

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

  2. Declining, terminal, or drawing to an end.

    Example: In the dying moments of daylight I glimpsed a sail on the horizon.

  3. Pertaining to death, or the moments before death.

    Example: His dying words were of his mother.