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Dying

verb
/ˈdaɪ.ɪŋ/
Word Frequency: 18.3

Definitions

1.verbTo stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
2.verbTo (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
"He died a hero's death."
3.verbTo yearn intensely.
"I'm dying for a packet of crisps."
4.verbTo be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
"The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother."
5.verbTo become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
"He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him."
6.verbTo be mortified or shocked by a situation.
"If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die."
7.verbTo be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
"When I found out my two favorite musicians would be recording an album together, I literally planned my own funeral arrangements and died."
8.verb(of a machine) To stop working, to break down.
"My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning."
9.verb(of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
10.verbTo perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
11.verbTo sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
12.verb(often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
"to die to pleasure or to sin"
13.verbTo disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
14.verbTo become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
15.verb(of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
"Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal..."
16.verbTo colour with dye, or as if with dye.
17.nounThe process of approaching death; loss of life; less precisely, death.
18.noun(with "the") Those who are currently expiring, moribund.
"The battlefield was littered with the dead and dying."
19.adjectiveApproaching death; about to die; moribund.
"The dying dog was put out of his misery with a single shot!"
20.adjectiveDeclining, terminal, or drawing to an end.
"In the dying moments of daylight I glimpsed a sail on the horizon."
21.adjectivePertaining to death, or the moments before death.
"His dying words were of his mother."

Synonyms

be no morebite the big onebite the dustbuy the farmcease to becheck outcross overcross the riverexpiregive up the ghostgo to meet one's makerhop off the twig

Antonyms

nascent

Rhymes With

lyingvyingpieingbuyingshyingsighingeyeingeying
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