Crossword clues for dying
dying
- Becoming extinct, ... out
- Fizzling out
- Subsiding (with "down")
- Failing on the stage
- Bombing, on stage
- About to go out
- Very eager (to)
- Really anxious (to know)
- Performing very badly, as a comedian
- Losing power, like a battery
- Losing power
- Like embers
- Like a phone down to 1%
- Like a graying ember
- Laughing nonstop, so to speak
- Ira Levin's "A Kiss Before ___"
- Going out, like a fire
- Going out, as a fire
- Going down hard at a comedy club
- Flopping on stage
- Failing onstage
- Fading, as a fire
- Fading away
- Desperately longing (to)
- Desiring greatly, with "for"
- Bombing, as a comedian
- Bombing on stage
- Becoming extinct, with "out"
- "OMG SO FUNNY!"
- "I am ___, Egypt . . . "
- "___ is for fools. Amateurs."
- ___ swan
- ___ quail (bloop hit)
- Eager
- Bombing, as a comic
- Declining, as embers
- Not getting many laughs, as a comedian
- Faulkner's "As I Lay ___"
- Flopping at a comedy club
- Feel indifferent towards
- Be damned (in the religious sense)
- Suffer spiritual death
- Disappear or come to an end
- Lose sparkle or bouquet, as of wine or beer
- To be on base at the end of an inning, of a baseball player
- Languish as with love or desire
- Stop operating or functioning
- Be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame
- Suffer or face the pain of death
- Pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- The time when something ends
- Cut or shape with a die
- Declining, as a fire
- Subsiding, with "down"
- "I am ___, Egypt . . . ": Shak.
- "I am ___, Egypt . . . ": Shak
- " . . . despised and ___ king": Shelley
- Coming to an end
- Close to death
- Ceasing to function
- On the way out
- Starting to stop!
- They say colouring’s on the way out
- Flopping, as a business
- Fading, as embers
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Die \Die\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Died; p. pr. & vb. n. Dying.] [OE. deyen, dien, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. deyja; akin to Dan. d["o]e, Sw. d["o], Goth. diwan (cf. Goth. afd?jan to harass), OFries. d?ia to kill, OS. doian to die, OHG. touwen, OSlav. daviti to choke, Lith. dovyti to torment. Cf. Dead, Death.]
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To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought.
To die by the roadside of grief and hunger.
--Macaulay.She will die from want of care.
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To suffer death; to lose life.
In due time Christ died for the ungodly.
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To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished.
Letting the secret die within his own breast.
--Spectator.Great deeds can not die.
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To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
His heart died within, and he became as a stone.
--1 Sam. xxv. 37.The young men acknowledged, in love letters, that they died for Rebecca.
--Tatler. To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin.
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To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away.
Blemishes may die away and disappear amidst the brightness.
--Spectator. (Arch.) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
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To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
To die in the last ditch, to fight till death; to die rather than surrender.
``There is one certain way,'' replied the Prince [William of Orange] `` by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin, -- I will die in the last ditch.''
--Hume (Hist. of Eng. ).To die out, to cease gradually; as, the prejudice has died out.
Syn: To expire; decease; perish; depart; vanish.
Dying \Dy"ing\, a.
In the act of dying; destined to death; mortal; perishable; as, dying bodies.
Of or pertaining to dying or death; as, dying bed; dying day; dying words; also, simulating a dying state.
Dying \Dy"ing\, n. The act of expiring; passage from life to death; loss of life.
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."
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
1 Approaching death; about to die; moribund. 2 decline, terminal, or drawing to an end. 3 Pertaining to death, or the moments before death. n. 1 (context plurale tantum English) Those who are currently expiring, moribund. 2 The process of approaching death; ''or, less precisely'', death itself. v
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(present participle of die English) Etymology 2
vb. (context nonstandard English) (present participle of dye English) ((alternative form of dyeing English))
WordNet
v. pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully" [syn: decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass] [ant: be born]
suffer or face the pain of death; "Martyrs may die every day for their faith"
be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame; "I was dying with embarrassment when my little lie was discovered"; "We almost died laughing during the show"
stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident" [syn: fail, go bad, give way, give out, conk out, go, break, break down]
feel indifferent towards; "She died to worldly things and eventually entered a monastery"
languish as with love or desire; "She dying for a cigarette"; "I was dying to leave"
cut or shape with a die; "Die out leather for belts" [syn: die out]
to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player
lose sparkle or bouquet; "wine and beer can pall" [syn: pall, become flat]
disappear or come to an end; "Their anger died"; "My secret will die with me!"
suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense); "Whosoever..believes in me shall never die"
[also: dying]
adj. in or associated with the process of passing from life or ceasing to be; "a dying man"; "his dying wish"; "a dying fire"; "a dying civilization" [syn: dying(a)] [ant: aborning]
eagerly desirous; "anxious to see the new show at the museum"; "dying to hear who won" [syn: anxious(p), dying(p)]
n. the time when something ends; "it was the death of all his plans"; "a dying of old hopes" [syn: death, demise] [ant: birth]
See die
Wikipedia
Dying is the experience of death. It may also refer to:
- Dyeing, the process of coloring cloth and clothing
- "Dying", a song by Stone Sour from Audio Secrecy
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.