释义
[ dahy -ing ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈdaɪ ɪŋ / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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adjective ceasing to live; approaching death; expiring: a dying man.
of, relating to, or associated with death: his dying hour.
given, uttered, or manifested just before death: her dying words.
drawing to a close; ending: the dying year.
noun the act or process of ceasing to live, ending, or drawing to a close.
Origin of dying 1250–1300; Middle English. See die1 , -ing2 , -ing1
OTHER WORDS FROM dying half-dying, adjective
WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH dying dyeing, dying Words nearby dying dye sensitizing, dyestuff, dye transfer, dyewood, Dyfed, dying , dyke, dykon, Dylan, Dylan, Bob, dymaxion
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Example sentences from the Web for dying I am fortunate that I have never been deathly ill, but whenever I have the stomach flu, I most certainly feel like I am dying .
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Mills was lying on the sidewalk, dying , right in front of people trained to save him.
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“In a country that once fed the world, children were dying of malnourishment,” writes Ivereigh.
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Her son peeked out the window and told me his mother had left Havana for La Lisa to visit a dying relative.
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You know, papa, he is dying , and this letter is a message of death.
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It was late at night when Elder Kinney went home from the bedside of the dying woman.
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What the dead man had told our friends about the herd of horses with his dying breath was true.
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In such a case, if one of us should be wounded, he would keep his lips closed, even if he were dying .
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If a dying person struggled hard and long, it was believed that the spirit was kept from departing by some magic spell.
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British Dictionary definitions for dying verb the present participle of die 1
adjective relating to or occurring at the moment of death a dying wish
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Idioms and Phrases with dying The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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