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dyingadjective nearly deadwe watered the dying plants just in time moribund expiring, fading, passing away, sinkingdecadent, declining, deterioratingdead, deceased, defunct, demised, departed, fallen, gone, lifeless, passed awayterminal at death's door alive, animate, live, living, quickbeing, breathing, existing, subsisting, survivingbooming, flourishing, prospering, roaring, thrivinganimated, bouncing, energetic, frisky, jazzy, lively, peppy, perky, spirited, sprightful, sprightly, springy, vital, vivacious, zippy to stop livingthe king died of old age after a long and fruitful reign checking out, conking (out), croaking(slang), deceasing, demising, departing, dropping, ending, exiting, expiring, falling, flatlining, going, kicking in(slang), kicking off(slang), parting, passing away, passing (on), pegging out(chiefly British), perishing, popping off, stepping out, succumbing predeceasingconsuming, disappearing, drying up, fading, failing biting the dust, buying it(or buying the farm), giving up the ghost, kicking the bucket, snuffing it(British) breathing, living coming to, revivinglingeringbeing, existing, subsistingflourishing, prospering, thriving to come to an endthe storm died just as dawn was breaking over the horizon breaking off, breaking up, ceasing, closing, concluding, dead-ending, determining, discontinuing, elapsing, ending, expiring, finishing, going, halting, lapsing, leaving off, letting up, passing, quitting, stopping, terminating, winding up, winking (out) desisting (from), laying off (of), refraining (from)giving over(British), knocking off, packing (up or in)breaking down, conking (out), cutting out, stallingpausing, staying, suspendingabating, petering (out), winding down biting the dust continuing, hanging on, persisting drawing out, extending, prolonging, protracting to stop functioningfortunately, when the engine died we were only two blocks from home breaking, breaking down, conking (out), crashing, cutting out, failing, giving out, stalling fizzling, sputtering, wheezingacting up, malfunctioningjamming starting (up) in the 15th century |