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Dying

adjective

1.

In or associated with the process of passing from life or ceasing to be. "His dying wish" , "A dying fire" , "A dying civilization"

2.

Eagerly desirous. Synonym: anxious. "Dying to hear who won"

noun

1.

The time when something ends. Synonyms: death, demise. "A dying of old hopes"

Die

verb

(past & past part. died; pres. part. dying)

1.

Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life. Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it. "The children perished in the fire" , "The patient went peacefully" , "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"

2.

Suffer or face the pain of death.

3.

Be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame. "We almost died laughing during the show"

4.

Stop operating or functioning. Synonyms: break, break down, conk out, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad. "The car died on the road" , "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town" , "The coffee maker broke" , "The engine failed on the way to town" , "Her eyesight went after the accident"

5.

Feel indifferent towards.

6.

Languish as with love or desire. "I was dying to leave"

7.

Cut or shape with a die. Synonym: die out.

8.

To be on base at the end of an inning, of a player.

9.

Lose sparkle or bouquet. Synonyms: become flat, pall.

10.

Disappear or come to an end. "My secret will die with me!"

11.

Suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense).

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... the Memphis wharf next to the above mentioned hospital boat, and that he happened to see his son in the act of being carried ashore, and thereupon at once went to him, and was going with him to a hospital in the city. But the boy was dying, and that was the cause of the halt made by the stretcher-bearers. The soldier was quite young, seemingly not more than eighteen years old. He had an orange, which his father had given him, tightly gripped in his right hand, which was lying across his ...

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... evidence agrees. In spite of some advocacy of a date prior to A.D. 70, the bulk of critical opinion is decidedly against it. The prologue to Luke's Gospel itself implies the dying out of the generation of eye-witnesses as a class. A strong consensus of opinion supports a date about A.D. 80; some prefer 75 to 80; while a date between 70 and 75 seems no less possible. Of the reasons for a date in one of the earlier decades ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... fifty lines, while adding fifty to heal over the wounds made by excision. As the poem stands, it is a rebuke of tyrannous ambition in the tale of Gebir, prince of Boetic Spain, from whom Gibraltar took its name. Gebir, bound by a vow to his dying father in the name of ancestral feud to invade Egypt, prepares invasion, but yields in Egypt to the touch of love, seeks to rebuild the ruins of the past, and learns what are the fruits of ambition. This he learns in the purgatory ...

— Gebir • Walter Savage Landor

... died very sudden, Only two hours and a quarter, About fifteen minutes dying. Bloody water pouring out her mouth, And her breath agoing, Poor ...

— A Complete Edition of the Works of Nancy Luce • Nancy Luce

... the prince's hand, in preference, however, only to that of Captain Dunnup, and she became the envy of the room, for numberless fair ladies were dying to dance with ...

— The Pirate of the Mediterranean - A Tale of the Sea • W.H.G. Kingston

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