To be in the proccess of dying, to face the foreseeable and inevitable end ones life usually due to sickness.
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Examples for "moribund "
Examples for "moribund "
1 Yet a moribund real estate market means the company's outlook remains uncertain.
2 Block deals may help league table credit, especially when business is moribund .
3 Given the need to rejuvenate a moribund , oil-dependent economy, that's not ideal.
4 Control the moribund local machinery, it seems, and power will be yours.
5 Stockholm's move reflects growing international exasperation over the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
1 The camp was half hidden, and the fires there must be dying .
2 The scare of a few weeks back seemed to be dying down.
3 She might be dying - dead for aught I knew-whenhe reached the house.
4 He seemed to be dying on his feet, when the master whistled.
5 The man may be dying of want, and you slip past afraid.
1 Remember me when you lie dying - in blood and pain.
2 You come to me again when I lie dying .
3 As you lie dying , think of Lopez, whom you shot five years ago on the Putomayo River.
4 Now that I lie dying many sayings concerning you come into my mind that I had forgotten.
5 The last thought of my brain as I lie dying will be that of sunshine upon an English meadow.
1 He responded to being in extremis with all the equanimity of a drowning man.
1 Later, he was found lying upon the pavement in a dying condition .
2 Four days afterwards the dog crept out in a dying condition .
3 The Governor, Sir James Craig, in a dying condition , relinquished office.
4 He was carried back to the town by his soldiers, in a dying condition .
5 He was badly wounded in the left breast, and was apparently in a dying condition .
6 When the power of spiritual assimilation is dead, we are spiritually in a dying condition .
7 It was the body of a woman; she was still alive, but in a dying condition .
8 If an Indian is not in a dying condition , they do not consider anything the matter.
9 This morning one of them was found in a dying condition from an arrow in his stomach.
10 He was alive, but in a dying condition , and he succumbed on the way to the hospital.
11 He could give no coherent account of what had happened and was already in a dying condition .
12 Hutter fared even worse, for he was found by his daughters wounded, and in a dying condition .
13 A single survivor in an open boat was picked up off the Cape Verde Islands, in a dying condition .
14 Aunt Sarah found him, as she supposed, in a dying condition , and the following morning he was fully recovered.
15 The wounded Spaniards were lying in a row on the floor of the church-oneof them in a dying condition .
16 A number of men sent back to Mons are said to be in a dying condition , many of them tubercular.
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