Usually means: Ceasing to live; end of life.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word dying:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. dying: Merriam-Webster
  2. dying: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dying: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dying: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dying: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dying, dying: Wordnik
  7. dying, the dying: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dying: Wiktionary
  9. dying: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dying: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dying: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dying: Dictionary.com
  13. dying: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Dying: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Dying: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. dying: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. dying: Rhymezone
  18. Dying: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. dying: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. dying: FreeDictionary.org
  21. dying: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. dying: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. dying: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. dying: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dying: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dying: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. dying: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Dying: Merck Manuals
  4. dying: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. dying: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dying (Dyin'), dying: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Approaching death; about to die; moribund.
▸ adjective:  Declining, terminal, or drawing to an end.
▸ adjective:  Pertaining to death, or the moments before death.
▸ noun:  The process of approaching death; loss of life; death.

Similar:
moribund, death, expiring, declining, anxious, eager, demise, last, guttering, dead, more...

Opposite:
living, thriving, surviving, flourishing, growing

Types:
natural death, suicide, homicide, execution, more...

Phrases:
was dying, is dying, were dying, dying out, be dying, more...

Adjectives:
never, own, slow, long, holy, daily, last, more, busy, gradual, living

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Similar:
moribund, death, expiring, declining, anxious, eager, demise, last, guttering, dead, more...

Opposite:
living, thriving, surviving, flourishing, growing

Types:
natural death, suicide, homicide, execution, more...

Phrases:
was dying, is dying, were dying, dying out, be dying, dying away, dying off, dying declaration, Dying Wish, dying breed, dying declarations, assisted dying, dying gasp, dying hard, dying on the vine, more...

Adjectives:
never, own, slow, long, holy, daily, last, more, busy, gradual, living

Colors:
    black,     gray,     dark red,     maroon,     burgundy, more...



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