dying
(adjective) in or associated with the process of passing from life or ceasing to be; âa dying manâ; âhis dying wishâ; âa dying fireâ; âa dying civilizationâ
dying, anxious(p)
(adjective) eagerly desirous; âanxious to see the new show at the museumâ; âdying to hear who wonâ
death, dying, demise
(noun) the time when something ends; âit was the death of all his plansâ; âa dying of old hopesâ
die
(verb) suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense); âWhosoever..believes in me shall never dieâ
die
(verb) disappear or come to an end; âTheir anger diedâ; âMy secret will die with me!â
die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it
(verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; âShe died from cancerâ; âThe children perished in the fireâ; âThe patient went peacefullyâ; âThe old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102â
fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down
(verb) stop operating or functioning; âThe engine finally wentâ; âThe car died on the roadâ; âThe bus we travelled in broke down on the way to townâ; âThe coffee maker brokeâ; âThe engine failed on the way to townâ; âher eyesight went after the accidentâ
die, pall, become flat
(verb) lose sparkle or bouquet; âwine and beer can pallâ
die
(verb) to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player
die, die out
(verb) cut or shape with a die; âDie out leather for beltsâ
die
(verb) be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame; âI was dying with embarrassment when my little lie was discoveredâ; âWe almost died laughing during the showâ
die
(verb) languish as with love or desire; âShe dying for a cigaretteâ; âI was dying to leaveâ
die
(verb) feel indifferent towards; âShe died to worldly things and eventually entered a monasteryâ
die
(verb) suffer or face the pain of death; âMartyrs may die every day for their faithâ
Source: WordNet® 3.1
dying (not comparable)
Approaching death; about to die; moribund.
Declining, terminal, or drawing to an end.
Pertaining to death, or the moments before death.
• nascent
dying (countable and uncountable, plural dyings)
The process of approaching death; loss of life; less precisely, death.
dying pl (plural only)
(with "the") Those who are currently expiring, moribund.
dying
present participle of die
dying
(nonstandard) present participle of dye
• dingy
Source: Wiktionary
Dy"ing, a.
1. In the act of dying; destined to death; mortal; perishable; as, dying bodies.
2. Of or pertaining to dying or death; as, dying bed; dying day; dying words; also, simulating a dying state.
Dy"ing, n.
Definition: The act of expiring; passage from life to death; loss of life.
Die, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Died; p. pr. & vb. n. Dying.] Etym: [OE. deyen, dien, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. deyja; akin to Dan. döe, Sw. dö, Goth. diwan (cf. Goth. afd to harass), OFries. d 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. To die by the roadside of grief and hunger. Macaulay. She will die from want of care. Tennyson.
2. To suffer death; to lose life. In due time Christ died for the ungodly. Rom. v. 6.
3. To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished. Letting the secret die within his own breast. Spectator. Great deeds can not die. Tennyson.
4. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc. His heart died within, and he became as a stone. 1 Sam. xxv. 37. The young men acknowledged, in love letters, that they died for Rebecca. Tatler.
5. To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin.
6. To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away. Blemishes may die away and disappear amidst the brightness. Spectator.
7. (Arch.)
Definition: To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
8. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor. To die in the last ditch, to fight till death; to die rather than surrender. "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.
Die, n.; pl. in 1 and (usually) in 2, Dice (dis); in 4 & 5, Dies (diz). Etym: [OE. dee, die, F. dé, fr. L. datus given, thrown, p. p. of dare to give, throw. See Date a point of time.]
1. A small cube, marked on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See Dice.
2. Any small cubical or square body. Words . . . pasted upon little flat tablets or dies. Watts.
3. That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance. Such is the die of war. Spenser.
4. (Arch.)
Definition: That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado.
5. (Mach.) (a) A metal or plate (often one of a pair) so cut or shaped as to give a certain desired form to, or impress any desired device on, an object or surface, by pressure or by a blow; used in forging metals, coining, striking up sheet metal, etc. (b) A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from plates, or for forming cups or capsules, as from sheet metal, by drawing. (c) A hollow internally threaded screw-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, etc.; one of the separate parts which make up such a tool. Cutting die (Mech.), a thin, deep steel frame, sharpened to a cutting edge, for cutting out articles from leather, cloth, paper, etc.
– The die is cast, the hazard must be run; the step is taken, and it is too late to draw back; the last chance is taken.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., âthe father of the brideâ instead of âthe brideâs fatherâ
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
