[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

die \die\, v. i. imp.  p. p. died; p. pr.  vb. n. dying.
   oe. deyen, dien, of scand. origin; cf. icel. deyja; akin to
   dan. d"oe, sw. d"o, goth. diwan cf. goth. afd?jan to
   harass, ofries. d?ia to kill, os. doian to die, ohg. touwen,
   oslav. daviti to choke, lith. dovyti to torment. cf. dead,
   death.
   1. to pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to
      live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of
      the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish;
      -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by,
      with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion
      of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by
      fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought.
      1913 webster

            to die by the roadside of grief and hunger.
                                                  --macaulay.
      1913 webster

            she will die from want of care.       --tennyson.
      1913 webster

   2. to suffer death; to lose life.
      1913 webster

            in due time christ died for the ungodly. --rom. v.
                                                  6.
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   3. to perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or
      extinct; to be extinguished.
      1913 webster

            letting the secret die within his own breast.
                                                  --spectator.
      1913 webster

            great deeds can not die.              --tennyson.
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   4. to sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness,
      discouragement, love, etc.
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            his heart died within, and he became as a stone. --1
                                                  sam. xxv. 37.
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            the young men acknowledged, in love letters, that
            they died for rebecca.                --tatler.
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   5. to become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die
      to pleasure or to sin.
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   6. to recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to
      vanish; -- often with out or away.
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            blemishes may die away and disappear amidst the
            brightness.                           --spectator.
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   7. arch. to disappear gradually in another surface, as
      where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
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   8. to become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
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   to die in the last ditch, to fight till death; to die
      rather than surrender.
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            "there is one certain way," replied the prince
            william of orange " by which i can be sure never
            to see my country's ruin, -- i will die in the last
            ditch."                               --hume hist.
                                                  of eng. .

   to die out, to cease gradually; as, the prejudice has died
      out.

   syn: to expire; decease; perish; depart; vanish.
        1913 webster
see also:
died dying dead death to die in the last ditch to die out 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

dying \dy"ing\, a.
   1. in the act of dying; destined to death; mortal;
      perishable; as, dying bodies.
      1913 webster

   2. of or pertaining to dying or death; as, dying bed; dying
      day; dying words; also, simulating a dying state.
      1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

dying \dy"ing\, n.
   the act of expiring; passage from life to death; loss of
   life.
   1913 webster

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

die
     n 1: small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces; used to generate
          random numbers syn: dice
     2: a device used for shaping metal
     3: a cutting tool that is fitted into a diestock and used for
        cutting male external screw threads on screws or bolts
        or pipes or rods
     v 1: pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes
          and functions necessary to sustain life; "she died from
          cancer"; "they children perished in the fire"; "the
          patient went peacefully" syn: decease, perish, go,
           exit, pass away, expire, pass ant: be born
     2: suffer or face the pain of death; "martyrs may die every day
        for their faith"
     3: be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense
        emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame; "i was
        dying with embarrassment when my little lie was
        discovered"; "we almost died laughing during the show"
     4: stop operating or functioning; "the engine finally went";
        "the car died on the road"; "the bus we travelled in broke
        down on the way to town"; "the coffee maker broke"; "the
        engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went
        after the accident" syn: fail, go bad, give way, give
        out, conk out, go, break, break down
     5: feel indifferent towards; "she died to worldly things and
        eventually entered a monastery"
     6: languish as with love or desire; "she dying for a
        cigarette"; "i was dying to leave"
     7: cut or shape with a die; "die out leather for belts" syn: die
        out
     8: to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player
     9: lose sparkle or bouquet; "wine and beer can pall" syn: pall,
         become flat
     10: disappear or come to an end; "their anger died"; "my secret
         will die with me"
     11: suffer spiritual death; be damned in the religious sense;
         "whosoever..believes in me shall never die"
     also: dying
see also:
dice decease perish go exit pass away 
expire pass be born fail go bad 
give way give out conk out break break down 
die out pall become flat dying 

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

dying
     adj 1: in or associated with the process of passing from life or
            ceasing to be; "a dying man"; "his dying wish"; "a
            dying fire"; "a dying civilization" syn: dyinga
            ant: aborning
     2: eagerly desirous; "anxious to see the new show at the
        museum"; "dying to hear who won" syn: anxiousp, dyingp
     n : the time when something ends; "it was the death of all his
         plans"; "a dying of old hopes" syn: death, demise
         ant: birth
see also:
dyinga aborning anxiousp dyingp death demise 
birth 

[6] : WordNet (r) 2.0

dying
     see die
see also:
die 

[7] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

208 moby thesaurus words for "dying":
   abatement, abridgment, alleviation, annihilation, attenuation, bad,
   bane, biological death, brittle, burning out, burnout, capricious,
   cessation of life, changeable, choking, clinical death, comedown,
   contraction, controlling, corruptible, crossing the bar, curtains,
   dampening, damping, death, death knell, debasement, debt of nature,
   decadence, decadency, decease, deciduous, declension, declination,
   decline, declining, decrease, decrement, decrescence, deduction,
   deflation, deformation, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration,
   degradation, demise, demotion, departure, depravation,
   depravedness, depreciation, depression, derogation, descent,
   despaired of, deterioration, devolution, diminishing, diminishment,
   diminution, dissolution, done for, doom, dousing, downtrend,
   downturn, downward mobility, downward trend, drop, dwindling,
   dying off, ebb, ebb of life, ebbing, effeteness, end, end of life,
   ending, ephemeral, eternal rest, evanescent, exit, expiration,
   expiring, extenuation, extinction, extinguishment, facing death,
   fade-out, fading, failing, failure, failure of nerve, fall,
   falling-off, fickle, final summons, finger of death, fire fighting,
   flame-out, fleeting, flitting, fly-by-night, flying, fragile,
   frail, fugacious, fugitive, given up, going, going off, going out,
   grave, hand of death, hopeless, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive,
   in articulo mortis, in extremis, incapable of life, inconstant,
   insubstantial, involution, jaws of death, knell, languishment,
   lapse, last debt, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep,
   leaving life, lessening, letup, loss of life, loss of tone, low,
   lowering, making an end, miniaturization, mitigation, momentary,
   moribund, mortal, mutable, near death, nondurable, nonpermanent,
   nonviable, parting, passing, passing away, passing over,
   perishable, perishing, putting out, quenching, quietus, receding,
   reduction, regression, relaxation, release, rest, retiring,
   retreating, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, reward,
   sagging, scaling down, sentence of death, shades of death,
   shadow of death, short-lived, shrinking, simplicity, sinking,
   sleep, slippage, slipping, slipping away, slump, smotheration,
   smothering, snuffing, somatic death, stifling, subtraction,
   summons of death, temporal, temporary, terminal, terminal case,
   transient, transitive, transitory, undurable, unenduring, unstable,
   volatile, wane, waning, weakening

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