Find the word definition

Crossword clues for dying

dying
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dying
I.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a dying breed (=not many exist anymore)
▪ Real cowboys are a dying breed .
sb’s last/final/dying wish
▪ Her last wish was to be buried in her husband’s grave.
the dead and injured/wounded/dying
▪ Most of the dead and injured had been passengers on the bus.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be dying for sth/to do sth
▪ He was dying for a cigarette.
▪ He was dying for a long time, then there was a year of mourning, now we have a new emperor.
▪ My experience in workshops is that people are dying for more honest forms of communication.
▪ She was dying for him to leave so she could get on with business.
▪ The ill are dying for want of medicines.
▪ To know what they might be dying for.
be dying of hunger/thirst/boredom
▪ Each note pleaded to love a little longer, longer, as though it was dying of hunger.
▪ I for one am dying of thirst and hot enough to boil over.
▪ These huge corporations are dying of boredom caused by the inertia of giantism.
be dying/dropping etc like flies
▪ Grocer profits While other retailers are dropping like flies, supermarkets are making fat profits.
▪ Our kids are dropping like flies.
▪ The men were dying like flies, of fever.
▪ They should be dropping like flies, but that hasn't been the case.
in the dying minutes/seconds/moments (of sth)
▪ And, in the dying seconds, Miklosko blocked Smillie's close-range effort.
▪ Hereford usually crack or collapse in the dying minutes.
▪ Jason Chandler made certain in the dying minutes of the game, Good Sports winning 2-1.
▪ One moment of astonishing creativity in the dying seconds on Saturday transported him to the centre of Arsenal's universe.
▪ Sean Farrell popped in the opener and Danny Allsopp made sure of the points in the dying seconds.
▪ The World Champion launched a direct attack in the dying moments of the first session.
with your last/dying breath
▪ With his last breath, he told me he would always love me.
II.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
breath
▪ The upholder, rueful harbinger of death, Waits with impatience for the dying breath.
breed
▪ There are still a few of this dying breed around.
▪ Little old ladies who had relished home baking were a dying breed and the younger generation simply couldn't relate to them.
day
▪ Though the sinful propensities remain in us till our dying day, they need not be dominant.
▪ They kept writing to her about retrenchment till her dying day.
▪ His screams were so terrible that none who ever heard them forgot them till their dying day.
▪ I thought: that story is relevant to nothing, but I shall remember it until my dying day.
▪ He would insist to his dying day that an arctic wolf had savaged him.
▪ He chose Everton over Arsenal and will regret that decision to his dying day.
ember
▪ Left alone, Breeze crouched over the dying embers and tried to realize that this was Christmas Eve.
fire
▪ They were sitting on either side of a dying fire.
man
▪ The Padre found that they even sometimes flew into his throat while he was reading or praying with a dying man.
▪ The dying man should be surrounded by his friends and family, should make, as it were, a day of it.
▪ Viktor stood while he blessed the dying man and anointed him.
▪ The narrow, hot streets dinned with the silver bray of trumpets and the shrieks of dying men and women.
▪ Magee ignored the crimson puddles and knelt beside the dying man again, this time rolling him over on to his back.
▪ To disturb and shake a peacefully dying man simply to oblige your friend here who thinks he is a healer?
minutes
▪ In the dying minutes, full-back, Paul Bodin burst through.
▪ Jason Chandler made certain in the dying minutes of the game, Good Sports winning 2-1.
▪ Hereford usually crack or collapse in the dying minutes.
▪ A hummingbird, taking advantage of the dying minutes of daylight, feeds on flower nectar in the fragrant garden.
▪ Slaven put the ball in the net in the dying minutes but the goal was disallowed for offside.
▪ But these batting efforts were overshadowed in the dying minutes, when David Lawrence suffered an horrific injury.
person
▪ Having worked on providing everything the dying person needs, the next step is to prepare to say goodbye.
▪ Just as the dying person will make preparation in anticipation, so will the people around.
▪ It allows the process to start, often with the dying person having a part to play.
▪ There seems to be no place for a dying person on the surgical wards.
▪ If there are no relatives or friends, staff should be organised to stay with the dying person.
▪ Relatives or friends will say that the dying person must have whatever they want.
seconds
▪ And, in the dying seconds, Miklosko blocked Smillie's close-range effort.
▪ One moment of astonishing creativity in the dying seconds on Saturday transported him to the centre of Arsenal's universe.
▪ The decisive goal in the dying seconds of the first half was a beauty.
▪ Tranmere turned up the heat and Mark Proctor retaliated in the dying seconds of the first half.
▪ A lightweight bout saved in the dying seconds - Manchester's still got a lot to answer for.
▪ He survived a hard blow to the jaw in the dying seconds to win 20-10.
wish
▪ Who was Jenny to deny a man his last dying wish?
woman
▪ You can't repay a dying woman.
▪ One dark, stormy night I visited the dying woman.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Even as she lay dying in a hospital bed, she was still thinking of her children.
▪ He gave the dying man a drop of water from his flask.
▪ The priest was killed as he was giving the last rites to a dying man.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Magee ignored the crimson puddles and knelt beside the dying man again, this time rolling him over on to his back.
▪ Some of the patients, especially the dying, wanted to confide in the man and woman who had eased their suffering.
▪ The dying planet has a metaphysical relationship to my own mortality and to that extent my inquiry into landscape is inherently ironic.
▪ The bucket seethed with dying fish.
▪ The other prime mover was that the slump is now in its dying throes.
▪ When it comes to death, counselling the dying, or helping the bereaved, we Christians have become secularised.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dying

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.]

  1. 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.
    --Tennyson.

  2. To suffer death; to lose life.

    In due time Christ died for the ungodly.
    --Rom. v. 6.

  3. 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.
    --Tennyson.

  4. 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.

  5. To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin.

  6. 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.

  7. (Arch.) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.

  8. 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

Dying \Dy"ing\, a.

  1. In the act of dying; destined to death; mortal; perishable; as, dying bodies.

  2. Of or pertaining to dying or death; as, dying bed; dying day; dying words; also, simulating a dying state.

Dying

Dying \Dy"ing\, n. The act of expiring; passage from life to death; loss of life.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dying

late 13c., "death," verbal noun from die (v.). From mid-15c. as a past participle adjective, "in the process of becoming dead."

Wiktionary
dying

Etymology 1

  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

  2. (present participle of die English) Etymology 2

    vb. (context nonstandard English) (present participle of dye English) ((alternative form of dyeing English))

WordNet
die
  1. n. small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces; used to generate random numbers [syn: dice]

  2. a device used for shaping metal

  3. 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

  4. [also: dying]

die
  1. 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]

  2. suffer or face the pain of death; "Martyrs may die every day for their faith"

  3. 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"

  4. 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]

  5. feel indifferent towards; "She died to worldly things and eventually entered a monastery"

  6. languish as with love or desire; "She dying for a cigarette"; "I was dying to leave"

  7. cut or shape with a die; "Die out leather for belts" [syn: die out]

  8. to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player

  9. lose sparkle or bouquet; "wine and beer can pall" [syn: pall, become flat]

  10. disappear or come to an end; "Their anger died"; "My secret will die with me!"

  11. suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense); "Whosoever..believes in me shall never die"

  12. [also: dying]

dying
  1. 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]

  2. eagerly desirous; "anxious to see the new show at the museum"; "dying to hear who won" [syn: anxious(p), dying(p)]

  3. n. the time when something ends; "it was the death of all his plans"; "a dying of old hopes" [syn: death, demise] [ant: birth]

dying

See die

Wikipedia
Dying (disambiguation)

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.