English-Dutch translations for dying

• stervend
  Stervend sprak hij de woorden: "God zij dank, ik heb mijn plicht gedaan." His dying words were 'Thank God, I have done my duty'.
  Toen ze in het huis van haar moeder terugkwam, vond ze de stervende Munashe in de armen van zijn oma. When she returned to her mother's home, she found Munashe dying in his grandmother's arms.
  Ik huil omdat je mij niet toestaat een stervende te hulp te schieten die - en dat weet je - niet op je schoot. I am crying because you are stopping me helping a dying man who - as you know - was not firing.

Definition of dying

• Approaching death; about to die; moribund
• Declining, terminal, or drawing to an end
• Pertaining to death, or the moments before death
• The process of approaching death; loss of life; death
• Those who are currently expiring, moribund

Examples

• The dying dog was put out of his misery with a single shot!
• dying fire
• In the dying moments of daylight I glimpsed a sail on the horizon.
• His dying words were of his mother.
• until my dying day
• his dying bed
• The battlefield was littered with the dead and dying.

Related words

• studying
• steadying
• toadying
• undying
• dying out
• dying person
• dying man
• dying from hunger
• tidying up