dying

adjective

1. 1

   Approaching death; about to die; moribund.

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

   a dying fire

   The battlefield was littered with the dead and dying.

   The face of the dying man in the lingchi video monotonously evokes Maria Falconetti in Carl Theodor Dreyer ’s 1928 “Passion of Joan of Arc.”

2. 2

   Declining, terminal, or drawing to an end.

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

   The dieselisation of this line has not been, as is sometimes the case, a means of reviving a dying branch, but an improving hand to a healthy service.

   Just as with other recent reports by various bodies on HS2 and the ticket office closures, the National Audit Office's effort on the rail reform process is a devastating exposé of the failings and floundering of a dying administration that has failed to understand the value of having an efficient rail network.

3. 3

   Pertaining to death, or the moments before death.

   His dying words were of his mother.

   until my dying day

   his dying bed

noun

1. 1

   The process of approaching death; loss of life; death.

   “I'm looking forward to the most fascinating experience in life, which is dying,” he said. “You've got to approach your dying the way you live your life—with curiosity, with hope, with fascination, with courage and with the help of your friends.”

verb

1. 1

   Also a form of diepresent participle and gerund of die

verb

1. 1

   Also a form of dyepresent participle and gerund of dye

Forms

plural

dyings