dying
/ˈdaɪ.ɪŋ/verb
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To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
Example: He died a hero's death.
To yearn intensely.
Example: I'm dying for a packet of crisps.
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
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To colour with dye, or as if with dye.
noun
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The process of approaching death; loss of life; less precisely, death.
noun
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(with "the") Those who are currently expiring, moribund.
Example: The battlefield was littered with the dead and dying.
adjective
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Approaching death; about to die; moribund.
Example: The dying dog was put out of his misery with a single shot!
Declining, terminal, or drawing to an end.
Example: In the dying moments of daylight I glimpsed a sail on the horizon.
Pertaining to death, or the moments before death.
Example: His dying words were of his mother.