English-German translations for dying

• Sterben das
• sterbend
  Daher sollten wir unsere hochtrabenden Reden über Diktaturen, über Morde und sterbende Kinder etwas mäßigen. So let us moderate our great speeches on dictatorships, and murders, and dying children.
  Ich persönlich bin dafür, diese Subventionen denen zu geben, die praktisch eine sterbende Kunst ausüben. I am personally in favour of providing this support to those practising what is a dying art.
  Bei einem Besuch in Afrika traf ich in einem Hospiz für Aidskranke zwei irische katholische Nonnen, die sterbende Aidspatienten pflegten. At a hospice for AIDS patients, I met two Irish Catholic nuns who were caring for dying AIDS patients.
• im Sterben liegen
• sterben

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