'Dying' definitions:

Definition of 'dying'

(from WordNet)
adjective
In or associated with the process of passing from life or ceasing to be; "a dying man"; "his dying wish"; "a dying fire"; "a dying civilization" [ant: nascent]
adjective
Eagerly desirous; "anxious to see the new show at the museum"; "dying to hear who won" [syn: anxious(p), dying(p)]
noun
The time when something ends; "it was the death of all his plans"; "a dying of old hopes" [syn: death, dying, demise] [ant: birth]

Definition of 'Dying'

From: GCIDE
  • Die \Die\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Died; p. pr. & vb. n. Dying.] [OE. deyen, dien, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. deyja; akin to Dan. d["o]e, Sw. d["o], Goth. diwan (cf. Goth. afd?jan to harass), OFries. d?ia to kill, OS. doian to die, OHG. touwen, OSlav. daviti to choke, Lith. dovyti to torment. Cf. Dead, Death.]
  • 1. To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought. [1913 Webster]
  • To die by the roadside of grief and hunger. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
  • She will die from want of care. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To suffer death; to lose life. [1913 Webster]
  • In due time Christ died for the ungodly. --Rom. v. 6. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished. [1913 Webster]
  • Letting the secret die within his own breast. --Spectator. [1913 Webster]
  • Great deeds can not die. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • His heart died within, and he became as a stone. --1 Sam. xxv. 37. [1913 Webster]
  • The young men acknowledged, in love letters, that they died for Rebecca. --Tatler. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away. [1913 Webster]
  • Blemishes may die away and disappear amidst the brightness. --Spectator. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. (Arch.) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor. [1913 Webster]
  • To die in the last ditch, to fight till death; to die rather than surrender. [1913 Webster]
  • "There is one certain way," replied the Prince [William of Orange] " by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin, -- I will die in the last ditch." --Hume (Hist. of Eng. ).
  • To die out, to cease gradually; as, the prejudice has died out.
  • Syn: To expire; decease; perish; depart; vanish. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Dying'

From: GCIDE
  • Dying \Dy"ing\, a.
  • 1. In the act of dying; destined to death; mortal; perishable; as, dying bodies. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Of or pertaining to dying or death; as, dying bed; dying day; dying words; also, simulating a dying state. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Dying'

From: GCIDE
  • Dying \Dy"ing\, n. The act of expiring; passage from life to death; loss of life. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'dying'

From: Moby Thesaurus

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