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The time when something ends
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dying
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces; used to generate random numbers [syn: dice ] a device used for shaping metal a cutting tool that is fitted into a diestock and used for cutting male (external) screw threads on screws or bolts or pipes or rods ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., "death," verbal noun from die (v.). From mid-15c. as a past participle adjective, "in the process of becoming dead."
Usage examples of dying.
Instead of condemning his memory, he piously supposed, that the dying monarch had abjured the errors of Arianism, and recommended to his son the conversion of the Gothic nation.
The afterglow was dying on the walls, clashing nastily with all the curdled pinks in here.
An afterpiece to tragedy, it had supplanted the dying screech that quivered through the night.
Half-blinded by her own blood, Aganippe could not see what happened, but the rest of Goddess Pride vanished, their snarls dying in the distance.
Every American, Asian, and European has a 40 percent chance of dying of heart disease, and a 50 percent chance that his or her quality of life will be damaged by arterial aging disease.
After Ray, Ake, and Skerchock had gone to bed, the dogs gathered around the embers of the dying fire.
ASIA: You said that spirits spoke, but it was thee Sweet sister, for even now thy curved lips Tremble as if the sound were dying there Not dead PANTHEA: Alas it was Prometheus spoke Within me, and I know it must be so I mixed my own weak nature with his love .
Bin Ria Dem Loa Alem, was the child of the current partnership -- although the biological child of which woman, I never discovered -- and that he was dying of cancer.
It seemed a hopeless chase for these shells to sail after that dying monster with her cloud of canvas all drawing, alow and aloft.
But as he stared at alpenglow from the dying sunset, he saw all the difference that mattered.
Lukien always remembered the hard-won lessons of the street, and he had never forgiven his drunken father for leaving him, nor his mother for dying.
Celeste watched him with restless activity, made him take physic, applied blisters to him, went back and forth in the house, while old Amable remained at the edge of his loft, watching at a distance the gloomy cavern where his son lay dying.
As those words were written on his chart Amado Ortega was dying of bubonic plague in its wildly infectious pneumonic form.
Simone Amiot had not yet had a chance to speak to many of the German volunteers--the numbers of sick and dying exceeded a thousand now, and all her time was spent in the medical tent.
Six months ago, sick with food poisoning in some nameless hospital, he had seen this same look of blind struggle in the eyes of amnesiacs or men dying of cancer.