English-French translations for dying

• moribond
• mourance
• mourant
  Je comprends que toute personne mourant d’une insuffisance rénale soit désespérée. I appreciate that anyone dying of kidney failure will be desperate.
  Même le nombre de personnes mourant d’un simple rhume est plus élevé que cela! Even the number of people dying from a simple cold is much larger that that!
  Le nombre de personnes infectées par le VIH ou mourant du sida continue néanmoins à augmenter. Nevertheless, the number of people infected with HIV or dying of AIDS continues to grow.

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