dying

dy·ing (dī′iŋ)

intransitive verb

adjective

noun

a ceasing to live or exist; death

modif.

Losing life
expiring, sinking, moribund, on one's deathbed, passing away, going, perishing, failing, fading, near death, at death's door, in extremis (Latin), terminal, withering away, paying the debt of nature, not long for this world, fated, done for*, booked*, giving up the ghost*, cashing in*, on one's last legs*, with one foot in the grave; see also sick.
Antonyms immortal*, living*, reviving.
Becoming worse or less
declining, sinking, receding, decreasing, disappearing, diminishing, dwindling, dissolving, disintegrating, vanishing, failing, fading, ebbing, decaying, smoldering, recessive, overripe, decadent, passé, doomed, neglected, superannuated, done for*, fizzling out*, in its death throes.
Antonyms growing*, eternal*, enduring.

Preposition: of

consumption: Also informed by his appearence on at the ICA on the panel debate Dying of Consumption and lecturing at the Royal Institution.

Converse of object

assist: Assisted Dying In October the House of Lords debated Lord Joffe's Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill.

Adjective modifier

assisted: The Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill is set to receive its second reading in the House of Lords in May.

Noun used with modifier

panel: Also informed by his appearence on at the ICA on the panel debate Dying of Consumption and lecturing at the Royal Institution.
debate: Also informed by his appearence on at the ICA on the panel debate Dying of Consumption and lecturing at the Royal Institution.

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