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 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 .
1 He responded to being in extremis with all the equanimity of a drowning man.
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.
7 And yet some who lie dying say full devoutly the seven psalms and other prayers with the priest at their anointing.
8 It was awful to her to see the lake, which she loved more than any living thing, lie dying before her eyes.
9 A MAN who allowed an "emaciated" and "distressed" horse to lie dying in a field has been given a suspended jail sentence.
10 Petronilla lies dying of the pest.'
11 "That is my secret," Faynie would say, with a burst of bitter tears; "I shall never divulge it-untilthe hour I lie dying . "
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