To be in the proccess of dying, to face the foreseeable and inevitable end ones life usually due to sickness.
1The camp was half hidden, and the fires there must be dying.
2The scare of a few weeks back seemed to be dying down.
3She might be dying-deadfor aught I knew-whenhe reached the house.
4He seemed to be dying on his feet, when the master whistled.
5The man may be dying of want, and you slip past afraid.
6Her friends will be dying of envy, and she will enjoy that.
7They should be dying, you know, since you no longer use them.
8For all Malemute Kid knew, she might be dying a mile away.
9It meant that Tommy was very ill, that he might be dying.
10My potted plants must be dying from lack of water by now.
11Linguist Elizabeth Gordon says its possible extreme accents could be dying out.
12Indeed, I may say my sexual nature seemed to be dying out.
13I thought you would be dying to get to her right now-
14By the time he 's finished, they'll be dying for some real entertainment.
15Thirty years from now, the big cities may be dying very fast.
16Miriam might be dying but she was also fully living at last.