dying

1. not comparableApproaching death; about to die; moribund.

   a dying fire

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

   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.”

   2007 July 25, Roberta Smith, “Figures Moving as if in a Trance Across an Isolated, Lawless Island”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022

2. not comparableDeclining, terminal, or drawing to an end.

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

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   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.

   1957 April 28, P. J. Norris, “The Watford-St. Albans Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 281

   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.

   2024 March 20, Christian Wolmar, “NAO report highlights lack of clarity and purpose”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 34

3. not comparablePertaining to death, or the moments before death.

   his dying bed

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   His dying words were of his mother.

   until my dying day

plural dyings

1. countableuncountableThe 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.”

   1995 November 26, Laura Mansnerus, quoting Timothy Leary, “At Death's Door, the Message Is Tune In, Turn On, Drop In”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of die

1. gerundnonstandardparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of dye