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dying

/ˈdaɪ.ɪŋ/ noun B1
  1. The process of approaching death; loss of life; death. (countable, uncountable)

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As we had no doctor on board, and he was so anxious to arrive at Elba, that he would not touch at any other port, his disorder rose to such a height, that at the end of the third day, feeling he was dying, he called me to him.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 64 · C1
Everywhere the last requests of a dying man are sacred; but with a sailor the last requests of his superior are commands.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 65 · C1
Old Dantès was dying with anxiety to know what had become of Edmond.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 88 · C1
On the very night after his capture the aneurism burst, and he was found in the morning stretched upon the floor of the cell, with a placid smile upon his face, as though he had been able in his dying moments to look back upon a useful life, and on work well done.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 79 · B2

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