Day 793
21 Aug 2023

dying

/ˈdaɪ.ɪŋ/

verb
To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).To yearn intensely.To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.To be mortified or shocked by a situation.To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.(of a machine) To stop working, to break down.(of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.(often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.(of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.

verb
To colour with dye, or as if with dye.

noun
The process of approaching death; loss of life; less precisely, death.

noun
(with "the") Those who are currently expiring, moribund.

adjective
Approaching death; about to die; moribund.Declining, terminal, or drawing to an end.Pertaining to death, or the moments before death.