dying
/ˈdaɪ.ɪŋ/ adjetivo C2En español: moribundo, mortecino
- Approaching death; about to die; moribund. · The dying dog was put out of his misery with a single shot!· a dying fire
- Declining, terminal, or drawing to an end. · In the dying moments of daylight I glimpsed a sail on the horizon.
- Pertaining to death, or the moments before death. · His dying words were of his mother.· until my dying day
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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.
Everywhere the last requests of a dying man are sacred; but with a sailor the last requests of his superior are commands.
Old Dantès was dying with anxiety to know what had become of Edmond.
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.
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