Unscramble dying

Definition of dying

adjective:

• 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". Antonyms: nascent.
• eagerly desirous; "anxious to see the new show at the museum", "dying to hear who won". Synonyms: anxious.

noun:

• the time when something ends; "it was the death of all his plans", "a dying of old hopes". Synonyms: death, demise. Antonyms: birth.

verb:

• pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer", "The children perished in the fire", "The patient went peacefully", "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102". Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it. Antonyms: be born.
• suffer or face the pain of death; "Martyrs may die every day for their faith". Synonyms: die.
• 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", "We almost died laughing during the show". Synonyms: die.
• stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went", "The car died on the road", "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town", "The coffee maker broke", "The engine failed on the way to town", "her eyesight went after the accident". Synonyms: break, break down, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad.
• feel indifferent towards; "She died to worldly things and eventually entered a monastery". Synonyms: die.
• languish as with love or desire; "She dying for a cigarette", "I was dying to leave". Synonyms: die.
• cut or shape with a die; "Die out leather for belts". Synonyms: die, die out.
• to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player. Synonyms: die.
• lose sparkle or bouquet; "wine and beer can pall". Synonyms: become flat, die, pall.
• disappear or come to an end; "Their anger died", "My secret will die with me!". Synonyms: die.
• suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense); "Whosoever..believes in me shall never die". Synonyms: die.

Related words

abort, asphyxiate, blow, crash, drown, fall, famish, grave, malfunction, misfire, misfunction, predecease, starve, stifle, succumb, suffocate, yield.

Words nearby

ding, dyeing, lying, tying.

Rhymes with

buying, crying, dyeing, flying, frying, lying, overlying, prying, spying, supplying, trying, tying, underlying, undying.