dying

Meanings

• the time when something ends
  • "a dying of old hopes"
• pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
• suffer or face the pain of death
• 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"
• stop operating or functioning
• feel indifferent towards
• languish as with love or desire
  • "She dying for a cigarette"
  • "I was dying to leave"
• cut or shape with a die
• to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player
• lose sparkle or bouquet
• disappear or come to an end
• suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense)
• 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"
• eagerly desirous
  • "dying to hear who won"

Synonyms

anxious, become flat, break, break down, buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, conk out, croak, death, decease, demise, die, die out, drop dead, exit, expire, fail, give out, give way, give-up the ghost, go, go bad, kick the bucket, pall, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it