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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
moribund
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The Board is trying to stimulate the moribund economy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And with all of this expansion under way, companies have virtually no incentive to revive moribund refineries.
▪ As seasons passed, the priest could account for only eleven baptized people, moribund infants all.
▪ Not that there is anything moribund about her career.
▪ With inflation apparently moribund, a big jump in rates seems unlikely.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Moribund

Moribund \Mor"i*bund\, a. [L. moribundus, from moriri to die. See Mortal.] In a dying state; dying; at the point of death.

The patient was comatose and moribund.
--Copland.

Moribund

Moribund \Mor"i*bund\, n. A dying person. [R.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
moribund

1721, "about to die," from Middle French moribund (16c.), from Latin moribundus "dying, at the point of death," from mori "to die" (see mortal (adj.)). Figurative sense of "near an end" is from 1837. Related: Moribundity.

Wiktionary
moribund

a. 1 approaching death; about to die; dying; expiring. 2 Almost obsolete, nearing an end. n. A person who is near to dying.

WordNet
moribund
  1. adj. not growing or changing; without force or vitality [syn: stagnant]

  2. on the point of death; breathing your last; "a moribund patient"; "the expiring man was carried home by his two friends"

Wikipedia
Moribund

Moribund refers to a literal or figurative state near death.

Moribund may refer to:

  • Moribund (album), a 2006 album by the Norwegian black metal band Koldbrann
  • Moribund language, a language likely to become extinct without intervention
  • Moribund Oblivion, a Turkish black metal band from Istanbul
  • Moribund Records, a heavy metal record label
  • " Le Moribond", a song by Jacques Brel known in English as "Seasons in the Sun"
Moribund (album)

Moribund is the second album by Norwegian black metal band Koldbrann released in 2006. It features guest appearances by Iblis and L. Wachtfels from Endstille.

Usage examples of "moribund".

It is clear that the conveners resolved to press on with their task of world reorganization as far as they possibly could, without rousing the enfeebled and moribund political organizations of the past to obstruction and interference.

But now the reviving nationalisms, the resuscitating social and commercial interests of the moribund old world system, were acutely aware of the immense significance of events at Basra, and there had gathered an assemblage of delegations, reporters, adventurers, friends and camp followers of every description, far exceeding the numbers of the actual Fellows.

Most serious of these were those former sovereign governments and legal systems, which had seemed effaced, moribund or prostrate during the desolation of the Famished and Fever-stricken Fifties.

Arcturus: of the precession of equinoxes: of Orion with belt and sextuple sun theta and nebula in which 100 of our solar systems could be contained: of moribund and of nascent new stars such as Nova in 1901: of our system plunging towards the constellation of Hercules: of the parallax or parallactic drift of socalled fixed stars, in reality evermoving wanderers from immeasurably remote eons to infinitely remote futures in comparison with which the years, threescore and ten, of allotted human life formed a parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity.

Nadir of misery: the aged impotent disfranchised ratesupported moribund lunatic pauper.

It looked as if stars were being born in the moribund flesh, and soon the flesh started to flake away, in peels, in slices, as if Agenor were being filleted.

He saw also that her revolt against the moribund spirituality of the wealthy class to which she belonged was offset by a consciousness of possession, so that she could support Emmet one moment and condemn his theories the next.

And he hated the fact that he had experienced an instant stab of jealous pain the moment that Tommy Moribund had appeared at the cabin door.

He felt like killing Tommy Moribund, and he was confident that he could do it with his bare hands, or perhaps with just one of them.

Forget this folly of abducted visionesses and possessed warlocks, of suspicious aristocrats and moribund noblemen.

It was his mission to probe our moral ulcers to the roots and to raise moribund ideals from the dust, breathing his own vitality into them, till they rose before our eyes as living aspirations.

This would mean that new learning corresponds to the generation of new synapses or the activation of moribund old ones, and some preliminary evidence consistent with this view has been obtained by the American neuroanatomist William Greenough of the University of Illinois and his coworkers.

Now it became evident to me that those religions, though frowned upon by the state and violently reprehended by the Christian clerics, were not by any means dead or moribund or neglected.

He was largehearted in his sovereignty, dispensing benedictions to every quarter, a healer and teacher, prepared to animate what was moribund in me, to lash what was reluctant, to tease and feed the smallest fires of my mind.

This would mean that new learning corresponds to the generation of new synapses or the activation of moribund old ones, and some preliminary evidence consistent with this view has been obtained by the American neuroanatomist William Greenough of the University of Illinois and his coworkers.