dying

1. 1.

   the time when something ends

   “it was the death of all his plans”

   “a dying of old hopes”

   Synonymsdeathdemise

   Broaderend

   Narrowergrave

   Part oflife

Other forms of dying

plural

dyings·

comparative

dyinger·

superlative

dyingest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dying

What does dying mean?

dying means "in or associated with the process of passing from life or ceasing to be". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dying?

dying has 2 syllables: dy-ing. The stress falls on "dy". In IPA it is /ˈdaɪɪŋ/.

What is another word for dying?

Close synonyms include anxious, death, demise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of dying?

The recorded antonyms are nascent.

Is dying a common word?

dying is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with dying?

2 words rhyme with dying. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.