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dying gasps

dying gasps is the plural of dying gasp.

Meaning of dying gasp

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

Questions about dying gasps

What is dying gasps the plural of?
Dying gasps is the plural of dying gasp.

Words near dying gasps in the dictionary

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

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