dying
/ˈdaɪ.ɪŋ/
dying adjective: approaching death; about to die; moribund. Also the present participle and gerund of die.
Adjective
dying (not comparable)
- Approaching death; about to die; moribund.
- The dying dog was put out of his misery with a single shot!
- a dying fire
- 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.1957 April, P. J. Norris, “The Watford-St. Albans Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 281
- Pertaining to death, or the moments before death.
- His dying words were of his mother.
- until my dying day
Noun
dying (countable and uncountable, plural dyings)
- 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.”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
Also used as
dying is also the present participle and gerund of die.
dying is also the present participle and gerund of dye.
dying meaning in Marathi, Bengali, Malayalam and Punjabi
dying in Marathi
- मरणार
dying in Bengali
- মৃত্যুবরণ করছে
dying in Malayalam
- മരിക്കുന്നു, മരണമടയുന്നു, മരിക്കുന്നത്
dying in Punjabi
- ਮਰਦੇ ਹੋਏ
More languagesFewer languages
- dying in Odia
- ମରିଯାଉଛନ୍ତି
- dying in Sanskrit
- मारुक māruka
- dying in Tagalog
- naghihingalo
- dying in Malay
- nazak
- dying in Indonesian
- sakratulmaut, sekarat
Examples of dying in a sentence
- 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...
Antonyms of dying
Forms of dying
| plural | dyings |
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Origin of dying
From die + -ing.
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Words formed from dying
Phrases with dying
- dying on
- dying off
- dying out
- I'm dying
- dying away
- dying back
- dying down
- dying hard
- dying pigs
- Dying Earth
- dying gasps
- dying rooms
31 more phrasesFewer phrases
- dying breeds
- Dying Earths
- dying quails
- dying a death
- dying roaring
- doing or dying
- dying laughing
- dying in a fire
- riding or dying
- dying in harness
- dying in the ass
- dying like flies
- dying in the arse
- dying in the wool
- dying on the vine
- dying prematurely
- dying declarations
- dying how one lived
- dying on one's arse
- living and dying by
- dying in one's shoes
- dying like one lived
- either doing or dying
- dying a thousand deaths
- dying the way one lived
- if I'm lying, I'm dying
- dying just how one lived
- dying and going to heaven
- dying just like one lived
- dying roaring for a priest
- dying just the way one lived
Words that rhyme with dying
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- buying
- clying
- complying
- decrying
- defying
- denying
- descrying
- dyeing
- espying
- forbuying
- frying
- goodbyeing
- high-flying
- highing
- implying
- lyeing
- lying
- mistrying
- nighing
- outvying
- pieing
- plying
- prying
- rebuying
- redyeing
- refrying
- relying
- replying
- retrying
- retying
- scrying
- shanghaiing
- shying
- sighing
- skying
- speed flying
- spying
- stying
- supplying
- thighing
- unbuying
- uncrying
- undrying
- undyeing
- undying
- unflying
- unfrying
- unlying
Questions about dying
- What does dying mean?
- Dying means approaching death; about to die; moribund.
- What is dying in Marathi?
- Dying in Marathi is मरणार. See Dying meaning in Marathi.
- How do you use dying in a sentence?
- The battlefield was littered with the dead and dying.
- What part of speech is dying?
- Dying can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce dying?
- Dying is pronounced /ˈdaɪ.ɪŋ/.
Words near dying in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: dying (page history and authors); dying (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dying (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dying (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dying (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dying (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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