English-Spanish translations for dying

• moribundo
  «Palabras, palabras, palabras», mientras esperamos señales positivas de un régimen moribundo que no tiene intención alguna de cambiar de rumbo. ‘Words, words, words’, while we wait for positive signs from a dying regime that has no intention of changing course.
  Por lo tanto, moderemos nuestros discursos grandilocuentes sobre las dictaduras, y los asesinatos, y los niños moribundos. So let us moderate our great speeches on dictatorships, and murders, and dying children.
  En un incidente ocurrido recientemente en Kabul, esa policía llegó a pegar a las enfermeras de un hospital que querían ayudar a los heridos y a los moribundos. In one recent incident in Kabul these police actually beat nurses in a hospital who were arriving to help the injured and the dying.
• mortecino
• muriendo
  Sigue muriendo gente inocente por ambas partes. On both sides, innocent people are still dying.
  Están muriendo como moscas, ¿y quién se preocupa de ello? They are dying like flies, and who cares about them?
  En esta Europa sigue muriendo mucha gente. There are still too many people dying in Europe today.

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