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dying gasp

dying gasp noun: the last breath taken before death.

Noun

dying gasp (plural dying gasps)

  1. The last breath taken before death.
  2. (figuratively) The last moments, or final period, of something that becomes obsolete or inactive.
    • To replace logarithmic tables with natural tables required some time. This seems like a modern age, yet I am not an octogenarian and I can remember the dying gasp of the logarithmic table as the standard method of computation. I have seen the desk calculator become a necessary instrument for every...1951, IBM Corp., Proceedings, Computation Seminar, page 13

Forms of dying gasp

pluraldying gasps

Questions about dying gasp

What does dying gasp mean?
Dying gasp means the last breath taken before death.
What part of speech is dying gasp?
Dying gasp is a noun.
What is the plural of dying gasp?
The plural of dying gasp is dying gasps.

Words near dying gasp in the dictionary

  1. dying declaration
  2. dying declarations
  3. dying down
  4. Dying Earth
  5. Dying Earths
  6. dying gasp
  7. dying gasps
  8. dying hard
  9. dying how one lived
  10. dying in a fire
  11. dying in harness

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