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dying
[ dahy-ing ]
adjective
- ceasing to live; approaching death; expiring:
a dying man.
- of, relating to, or associated with death:
his dying hour.
- given, uttered, or manifested just before death:
her dying words.
- drawing to a close; ending:
the dying year.
noun
- the act or process of ceasing to live, ending, or drawing to a close.
dying
/ ˈ岹ɪɪŋ /
verb
- the present participle of die 1
adjective
- relating to or occurring at the moment of death
a dying wish
Other Word Forms
- -iԲ adjective
Word History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
see under die .Example Sentences
Mr Jones said the defendant had left Ms Flynn "dying on the floor of her own bedroom".
No words can better capture the reality in Gaza today than this: We are dying.
“All this because we want people to stop dying,” Kehlani said.
Your only wish was to be at home surrounded by your family when you took your dying breath.
"In that category of so-called natural causes deaths are 30 and 40-year-olds who are dying from things like heart attacks or from diabetes or epilepsy," said Prof Armstrong.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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