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Definition: Dying |
DyingAdjective1. 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". 2. (colloquial) eagerly desirous; "anxious to see the new show at the museum"; "dying to hear who won". Noun1. The time when something ends; "it was the death of all his plans"; "a dying of old hopes". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dying" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of dying, foretells that you are threatened with evil from a source that has contributed to your former advancement and enjoyment. To see others dying, forebodes general ill luck to you and to your friends. To dream that you are going to die, denotes that unfortunate inattention to your affairs will depreciate their value. Illness threatens to damage you also. To see animals in the throes of death, denotes escape from evil influences if the animal be wild or savage. It is an unlucky dream to see domestic animals dying or in agony. As these events of good or ill approach you they naturally assume these forms of agonizing death, to impress you more fully with the joyfulness or the gravity of the situation you are about to enter on awakening to material responsibilities, to aid you in the mastery of self which is essential to meeting all conditions with calmness and determination. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Medicine | The final cession of life. Source: European Union. (references) |
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simple:deathDeath can refer to an event or a state. Death as a state is the opposite of life; death as an event is the opposite of birth. The event of death is the termination of life in a living system, or in part thereof, while the state is that which follows.
Biologically, death can occur to wholes, to parts of wholes, or to both. For example, it is possible for individual cellss and even organss to die, and yet for the organism as a whole to continue to live; many individual cells can live for only a short time, and so most of an organism's cells are continually dying and being replaced by new ones.
Conversely it is also possible for the organism to die and for cells and organs to live and to be used for transplantation. In the latter case, though, the still-living tissues must be removed and transplanted quickly or they too will soon die without the support of their host.
Irreversibility is often cited as a key feature of death and, indeed, scientists have not been able to watch a living organism die and later bring it back to life. Nonetheless, many people do not seem convinced that death is always and necessarily irreversible; thus some have a literal belief in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, while others have high hopes for the eventual prospects of Cryonics.
The biological function of death is primarily to permit the operation of evolution.
Human Death: Definitions and Significance
By far the most important sort of death to human beings is human death. Thinking about human death raises a number of questions.
First, how can we identify the exact moment at which death has occurred? This seems important, because identifying that moment would allow us to put the correct time on death certificates, make sure that the deceased's will is enacted only after the deceased is truly deceased, and in general guide us regarding when to act as one should act toward a living person and when to act as one should toward a dead person. In particular, identifying the moment of death is important in cases of organ transplant, as organs must be harvested as quickly as possible after death.
Historically, attempts to define the exact moment of death have been problematic. Death was once defined as the cessation of heartbeat and breathing, for example, but the development of CPR and early defibrillation posed a challenge: either the definition of death was incorrect, or techniques had been discovered that really allowed one to reverse death (because, in some cases, breathing and heartbeat can be restarted). Generally, the first option was chosen. (Today this definition of death is known as "clinical death".)
Today, where a definition of the moment of death is required, we usually turn to "brain death" or "biological death": people are considered dead when the electrical activity in their brain ceases. It is presumed that a stoppage of electrical activity indicates the end of consciousness. Those that view that only the neo-cortex of the brain is necessary for consciousness, however, sometimes argue that only electrical activity there should be considered when defining death. In most places the more conservative definition of death (cessation of electrical activity in the whole brain, as opposed to just in the neo-cortex) has been adopted (for example the Uniform Definition of Death Act in the United States).
Even in these cases, the determination of death can be difficult. EEGs can detect spurious electrical impulses when none exists, while there have been cases in which electrical activity in a living brain has been too low for EEGs to detect. Because of this, hospitals often have elaborate protocols for determining death involving EEGs at widely separated intervals.
It might also be worthwhile to entertain the possibility that death does not occur at a particular moment, but unfolds as a process over a period of time. Perhaps, in the end, it is not terribly meaningful to speak of "the exact moment of death".
What happens to humans after death?
Second, and more interesting to many, what, if anything, happens to the human spirit, consciousness or soul when they die? Is there perhaps an afterlife? Can we expect reincarnation? These questions are of long standing. For many, believe in an afterlife is a consolation in connection with death of a beloved one or the prospect of one's own death. On the other hand, fear of hell etc. may make death worse. Human contemplation about death is an important motivation for the development of organized religion.
Many anthropologists feel that the careful burials among Neanderthals, where ornamented bodies were laid in carefully dug, flower-strewn graves, is evidence of early belief in an afterlife.
Physiological consequences of human death
For the human body, the physiological consequences of death include rigor mortis, algor mortis, livor mortis (dependent lividity) and decomposition (decay).
The deceased person is usually either cremated or deposited in a tomb, often a hole in the earth, called a grave. This happens during or after a funeral ceremony.
Graves are usually grouped together in a plot of land called a "cemetery" or a "graveyard" and are often arranged by a funeral home or undertaker.
See also:
Quote (Peter Pan): To die will be an awfully big adventure.
- brain death
- burial
- cemetery
- coffin
- coma
- cremation
- funeral
- hearse
- karoshi
- near-death experience
- persistent vegetative state
- quantum immortality
Death is also a popular mythological figure who has existed in mythology and popular culture since the earliest days of storytelling. The traditional image of Death is also a tarot card. See also: Death (personification) Death is also the name of a death metal band.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Death."
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An endangered language is a language with so few surviving speakers that it is in danger of falling out of use. For example, many Native American languages in the United States became extinct through policies in the 19th and early 20th centuries discouraging and/or outlawing their use.While there is no definite threshold for identifying a language as endangered, three main criteria are used as guidelines:
For example, Ainu is endangered in Japan, with only approximately 15 surviving native speakers and few youth acquiring fluency in it. A language might also be declared as endangered if it has 100 speakers, but the speakers are all over the age of 90, and no youth are learning the language.
- The number of speakers currently living.
- The mean age of native and/or fluent speakers.
- The percentage of the youngest generation acquiring fluency with the language in question.
In contrast, a language with only 100 speakers might be considered very much alive if it is the primary language of a community, and is the first (or only) language of all children in that community.
Examples of endangered languages
See also List of endangered languages for a more complete list.
- Ainu language
- Livonian language
- Saami languages
- Udmurt language
- Manchu language
- Chukchi language
- Virtually all Native American languages in the US are endangered, if not outright extinct. The two main exceptions appear to be Hopi and Navajo.
Examples of recently extinct languages
With last known speaker and date of death:
The Rosetta Project is an online language archive which seeks to preserve endangered languages.
- Kakadu (Gagadju) language, Big Bill Neidjie (July 2002)
- Ubykh language, Tevfik Esenc (October 1992)
- Manx language, (1974) (but is being revived as a second language)
- Tasmanian language, (late 1800s)
See also List of extinct languages for a more complete list.
External Links
- Lists of many endangered Eurasian languages
- http://www.rosettaproject.org/live
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Endangered language."
Synonyms: DyingSynonyms: anxious(p) (adj), dying(a) (adj), dying(p) (adj), death (n), demise (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: perishing (biology & biotechnology). |
| Antonyms: aborning (adj), birth (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Death | Dying. Verb: moribund, morient; hippocratic; in articulo, in extremis; in the jaws of death, in the agony of death; going off; aux abois; one one's last legs, on one's death bed; at the point of death, at death's door, at the last gasp; near one's end, given over, booked; with one foot in the grave, tottering on the brink of the grave. |
Death warrant, death watch, death rattle, death bed; stroke of death, agonies of death, shades of death, valley of death, jaws of death, hand of death; last breath, last gasp, last agonies; dying day, dying breath, dying agonies; chant du cygne; rigor mortis; Stygian shore. | |
Desire | Eager, avid, keen; burning, fervent, ardent; agog; all agog; breathless; impatient; (impetuous); bent on, intent on, set on, bent upon, intent upon, set upon; mad after, enrage, rabid, dying for, devoured by desire. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | They'll literally be dying for me. (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) And with your dying breath, you will bear witness to the End of Days (End of Days; writing credit: Andrew W. Marlowe) She is dying. It happened to you too, but you were to young to remember (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) Don't you go dying on me now. (Dumb and Dumber; writing credit: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, and Bennett Yellin.) Killing is bad. Dying isn't (The Iron Giant; writing credit: Brad Bird and Tim McCanlies, based on the novel and play 'The Iron Man' by Ted Hughes.) | |
Lyrics | It's just a prayer for the dying. (Prayer For The Dying; performing artist: Seal) And you're feelin' like a part of you is dying (Things We Do For Love; performing artist: 10 CC) I felt like dying (Thank God I Found You; performing artist: 98 Degrees) You say you're even thinking about dying (Everybody Plays the Fool; performing artist: Aaron Neville) Tell me you ain't dying (What It Takes; performing artist: Aerosmith) | |
Clever | Autopsy is a dying practice. (references; author: unknown) The last 7 words of a dying church: "We never did it like that before". (references; author: unknown) Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Dying Room Only (1973) A Time for Dying (1969) The Long Day's Dying (1968) A Kiss Before Dying (1956) The Dying Detective (1921) | |
Song Titles | Prayer For The Dying (performing artist: Seal) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Cometary Knots Around A Dying Star. Credit: NASA. |  | From ground-based telescopes, the glowing gaseous debris surrounding dying, sun-like stars in ... Credit: NASA. |
 | Nova eruptions by dying stars were thought to be simple, predictable acts of violence. ... Credit: NASA. |  | A dying tree in the Scotch Creek RNA. Credit: Unknown. |
 | A Baby Born with AIDs in Born Dying Poster. |  | Dying for sex. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | [Epidemics- street scene with dead or dying people] / Elie Delaunay P. Leterrier Del. et Scpt. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | The dying Alexander receiving his soldiers / A. Castaigne. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Angel of death overlooks trail of dying leading through snow-covered mountains. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Battle scene with one mounted soldier killing another mounted soldier; around them are dead or dying soldiers and horses] / C.F.L. Marz 1831. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "A bench" by Jewel Collins Commentary: "A bench just dying for lovers." | "Daffodil" by Olivia Castells Commentary: "Dying flower that a friend gave to me for my birthday, in winter season." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Christina Rossetti | And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying. |
E. M. Cioran | To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten. |
Lord Alfred Tennyson | Authority forgets a dying king. |
Matthew Arnold | Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. |
Oscar Wilde | I am dying beyond my means. |
| Alas, I am dying beyond my means. | |
| The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. | |
Sir Thomas Browne | The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying. |
William Penn | He that lives to forever, never fears dying. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | It would be a strange catalogue of things, that industry provided and made use of, about every loaf of bread, before it came to our use, if we could trace them; iron, wood, leather, bark, timber, stone, bricks, coals, lime, cloth, dying drugs, pitch, tar, masts, ropes, and all the materials made use of in the ship, that brought any of the commodities made use of by any of the workmen, to any part of the work; all which it would be almost impossible, at least too long, to reckon up. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Path of Roses | Carroll, Lewis | That dying warrior, gazing as she passed, Clasped his thin hands and blessed her. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | For, Hester, I am a dying man. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | (r)Monsieur to a convict, is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He, he himself, his body to which he had yielded was dying. |
Time Enough for Love | Robert Heinlein | A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Plantagenet doth quit Plantagenet, Edward for Edward pays a dying debt |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The people outside were listening, standing quietly intent on the sounds of dying. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | He is blessed who is assured that the animal is dying out in him day by day, and the divine being established |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Neuritic plaques -- deposits of amyloid mixed with fragments of dead and dying neurons. (references) | |
Chemicals released from dying cells then induce surrounding cells to scavenge the debris. (references) | ||
The elderly are especially vulnerable to getting seriously ill and dying from this disease. (references) | ||
Business | Vat dyes are usually used for dying denim fabrics because it produces specific colors of jeans. (references) | |
Guatemala’s milk production began dying years ago when set prices where imposed on milk. There are no longer set prices for fresh milk; however, with the exception of a few large operations, Guatemala’s dairy production is still dominated by small, under financed operations. (references) | ||
Children | Indonesia | In previous years, the media frequently reported on instances of children dying from malnutrition or lack of treatment for the condition. (references) |
Iraq | The surveys revealed that in the south and center parts of the country, home to 85 percent of the population, children under 5 years old were dying at more than twice the rate that they were a decade before. (references) | |
Korea | In 1997 a senior UNICEF official said that approximately 80,000 children in North Korea were in immediate danger of dying from hunger and disease; 800,000 more were suffering from malnutrition to a serious but lesser degree. (references) | |
Economic History | Bangladesh | The market for textile machinery and components is expected to grow steadily over the next several years, and U.S. suppliers of sophisticated weaving, spinning, finishing and dying machinery will find a hot market. (references) |
Human Rights | Peru | Before dying in the hospital, Gamarra told relatives that the police officers in the prison had beaten him. (references) |
Dominican Republic | Prisoners immobilized by and dying of AIDS are not transferred to a hospital, but some terminal-stage inmates were released to spend their last days at home. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey. A king there was who lost an eye In some excess of passion; And straight his courtiers all did try To follow the new fashion. Each dropped one eyelid when before The throne he ventured, thinking 'Twould please the king. That monarch swore He'd slay them all for winking. What should they do? They were not hot To hazard such disaster; They dared not close an eye -- dared not See better than their master. Seeing them lacrymose and glum, A leech consoled the weepers: He spread small rags with liquid gum And covered half their peepers. The court all wore the stuff, the flame Of royal anger dying. That's how court-plaster got its name Unless I'm greatly lying. Naramy Oof |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
James Dobson | Well, I believe that, again, rather literal interpretation of scripture, I don't have any basis for what I believe, other than the inspired scriptures. And I believe that, not just by what you do, but by dying without forgiveness. |
Mary Tyler Moore | What happens is that the system builds many inferior blood vessels in the eye to take the place of the vessels that are dying. And those blood vessels are not up to the task. And they bleed. They hemorrhage and they cover the eye inside with blood. |
Mattie Stepanek | I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | None of our sons are fighting and dying in battle anywhere in the world. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | You all knew that some things are worth dying for. |
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| "Dying" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 73.47% of the time. "Dying" is used about 1,845 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 73.47% | 1,356 | 5,870 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 21.17% | 391 | 14,189 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.03% | 56 | 45,296 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.17% | 40 | 54,274 |
| Noun (common) | 0.16% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,845 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "dying": be dying ♦ be dying for ♦ be dying for smth. ♦ be dying of ♦ be dying to do ♦ be dying to smth. ♦ be like a dying duck in a thunderstorm ♦ dying agonies ♦ dying away ♦ dying confession ♦ dying for ♦ dying for a smoke ♦ dying man ♦ dying of animal ♦ dying wish ♦ dying words ♦ lie dying ♦ like a dying duck ♦ like a dying duck in a thunderstorm ♦ to my dying day ♦ to one's dying day ♦ until one's dying. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "dying": dying-down, dying-duck, dying-in, dying-out. | |
Ending with "dying": a-dying, fir-dying, last-breath-of-a-dying, never-dying, two-dogs-dying. | |
Containing "dying": independent-but-dying-to-be-subservient. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
death and dying | 2,045 | dying fabric | 26 |
dying | 307 | dying fetus lyrics | 25 |
dying fetus | 191 | dying hair tip | 22 |
dying hair | 164 | dying cancer | 22 |
as i lay dying | 136 | dying symptom | 22 |
my dying bride | 136 | aid dying hair kool | 21 |
a lesson before dying | 135 | death dying poem | 20 |
dying tie | 97 | dying living | 20 |
the dying process | 51 | fear of dying | 19 |
to an athlete dying young | 43 | dying tea | 18 |
dying tye | 42 | bride dying lyrics | 17 |
dying poem | 40 | dying gaul | 17 |
dying to be thin | 39 | dying leather | 17 |
dying sign | 38 | dying shoes | 17 |
dying carpet | 34 | dying in time | 17 |
dying stage | 34 | rage against the dying of the light | 16 |
dying young | 32 | dying people picture | 16 |
dying to live | 32 | as dying i lay lyrics | 15 |
civilization dying | 29 | clothes dying | 15 |
a prayer for the dying | 29 | dying quote | 14 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "dying"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vdekje (bane, death, decease, departure, dissolution, doom, exit, fate, quietus), që po vdes, që po merr fund, në mbarim (all up, low, up), në hekë, lyerje (clearing, coloring, colouring, dab, dash, daub, painting, whitewashing). (various references) | |
Arabic | فناء (cessation of being, court, courtyard, dissolution, dooryard, patio, precinct, yard), وفاة (death, demise, expiration), سكرات الموت (throe). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | умиращ (gone, moribund), умиране, смърт (curtains, death, decease, demise, departure, divide, doom, dust, end, ending, exit, expiration, fatality, fate, grave, happy release, last, passing, quietus, tomb), чезнещ (die away, vanishing), пропадащ, премалял (languorous), предсмъртен, примрял. (various references) | |
Chinese | 去世 (Died), 垂死 , 不行了 (on the point of death). (various references) | |
Czech | umírající (fey), skomíravý (failing), poslední (bottom, current, final, fresh, last, latest, lattermost, the last, ultimate), barvení (coloration). (various references) | |
Danish | doeden (death), doe (death), visnen (blight, perishing, wilting). (various references) | |
Dutch | dood (dead, death, inanimate, late, lifeless), zieltogend, stervend, afsterving (perishing), afsterven (die away, fail). (various references) | |
Farsi | مرگ (Death, Decease, Departure), مردنی (Goner, Mortal), مردن (Decease, Demise, Expire, Passaway, Perish, Quail), درحال نزع (Moribund). (various references) | |
Finnish | kuoleva (perishing), kuoleminen (perishing), kuolemaisillaan (at the point of death). (various references) | |
French | mourant, mort. (various references) | |
German | sterbend (deceasing, moribund, moribundly). (various references) | |
Greek | βαφή (colouring, dye, pigment, pigmentation, polishing, stain, tincture), μαρασμός (decline), που πεθαίνει, φθίση (consumption, phthisis, tabefaction, tabes, white plague). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מיתה (death, decease, demise, killing), מת (corpse, dead, deseased), גויעה (death, decease), גווע, גוסס (expiring, moribund), גסיסה (agony). (various references) | |
Hungarian | döglõdõ, haldokló (fey, moribund), haláltusa (agony, death agony, death-struggle, death-throe, flurry, mortal agony, pangs of death, throes of death). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sekarat (agonize), pengecatan (paint job, painting), kematian (bereavement, death, decease, demise). (various references) | |
Italian | morente (moribund). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 枯死 (withering). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おだぶつ (ruining oneself), ぜっそく (death, expiry), しつめい (losing one's life, loss of eyesight, name unknown), ひんし (on the verge of death, part of speech, verge of death), ふき (accidental, addition, additional or supplemental note, appendix, butterbur, clumsiness, freedom, independence, lawlessness, liberty, note, returning no more, rising no more, unexpected, unskillfulness, violation of customs), にゅうめつ (death, entering nirvana), いっし (a child, a finger, a retort, a string, an arrow, an only child, anecdotal history, one out, private first class), こし (ancient history, ancient poems, bier, hip, historic ruins, litter, old small shrine, palanquin, paper for recycling, used paper, withering), へいし (falling dead, perishing, soldier, stoppage, the Tairas). (various references) | |
Korean | 죽음 (Death). (various references) | |
Manx | raad y vaaish (death's door, moribund), parail (decline, decrease, diminished, diminution), paartail (departure, die, part, passing, pop off). (various references) | |
Norwegian | døende. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | yingday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | definhamento (emaciation, undergrowth), morte (decease, demise, doom, exit, passing, quietus, quittance), moribundo (moribund, parting). (various references) | |
Romanian | de moarte (deadly, deathly, lethal, to death), muribund (moribund), moarte (death, decease, disappearance, doom, end, exit, fatality, fate, grave, parting, passage, passing, slaughter, the tomb). (various references) | |
Russian | угасающий (parting), умирать умирающий, умирание, смерть (death, decease, end, exit, fatal shears, latter end, passing, quietus), предсмертный (deathbed). (various references) | |
Scottish | caochladh (altering). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | umiranje, koji umire (terminal). (various references) | |
Spanish | mortecino (dim, weak), moribundo (moribund), marchitamiento (perishing), agonizante. (various references) | |
Swedish | döende (moribund). (various references) | |
Thai | กำลังจะตาย. (various references) | |
Turkish | nesli tükenen, cansız (apathetic, apathetical, bloodless, colorless, dead, dead pan, exanimate, feckless, flagging, heartless, inanimate, lackadaisical, lackluster, lacklustre, languid, lifeless, listless, poky, sapless, singsong, sluggish, soulless, spiritless, stagnant, toneless, torpid, weak, wishy washy, wishywashy), ölmekte olan, ölme (death, don't die, grave, parting), ölen, ölüm (bitter end, capital, deadly, death, decease, demise, departure, dissolution, doom, end, ending, exit, killing, kiss off, last, latter end, longed-for rest, mortuary, necro-, obituary, passing, passing away, quietus, rest, sleep, the great divide, the grim reaper, the reaper, tomb). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | умираючий (fey, moribund, outward bound), умирання, що гине, кепський (bad, miserable, moldy, mouldy, nasty, naught, naughty, poor), згасання (senility), передсмертний. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự chết (death, decease), chết; hấp hối thốt ra lúc chết sắp tàn. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | moribundus. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | para-iristahe. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Mark Chapter 12, Verse 20 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Epta adelfoi hsan kai o prwtoV elaben gunaika kai apoqnhskwn ouk afhken sperma |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Septem ergo fratres erant et primus accepit uxorem et mortuus est non relicto semine |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Eornestlice seofe broðre wæren & seareste þa nam wif & warð dead. ne læfdensæde. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Thanne seuene britheren ther weren; and the firste took a wijf, and diede, and lefte no seed. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Ther were seven brethren: and the fyrst toke a wyfe and when he dyed leeft no seed behynde him. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Now there were seven brothers: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | There were seven brothers: and the first took a wife, and at his death there were no offspring; |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Mark Chapter 12, Verse 20 |
| Cebuano | Karon, dihay pito ka mga magsoong lalaki; ang kamagulangan nangasawa, ug unya namatay nga wala magbilin ug anak; |
| Croatian | Sedmero braæe bijaše. Prvi uze ženu i umrije ne ostavivši poroda. |
| Danish | Der var syv Brødre; og den første tog en Hustru, og da han døde, efterlod han ikke Afkom. |
| Dutch | Er waren nu zeven broeders, en de eerste nam een vrouw, en stervende liet geen zaad na. |
| Finnish | Oli seitsemän veljestä. Ensimmäinen otti vaimon, ja kun hän kuoli, ei häneltä jäänyt jälkeläistä. |
| French | Or, il y avait sept frères. Le premier se maria, et mourut sans laisser de postérité. |
| Gaelic | A nis bha seachdnar bhraithrean ann `s ghabh a chiad fhear bean, agus chaochail e gun sliochd fhagail. |
| German | Nun sind sieben Brüder gewesen. Der erste nahm ein Weib; der starb und hinterließ keinen Samen. |
| Haitian Creole | Se konsa, te gen sèt frè. Premye a marye, li mouri san l' pa kite pitit. |
| Hungarian | Heten valának tehát fitestvérek. És az elsõ feleséget võn, de meghalván, magot nem hagya. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Pernah ada tujuh orang bersaudara. Yang sulung kawin, lalu mati tanpa mempunyai anak. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Adalah orang bertujuh saudara. Maka yang pertama itu berbini, tetapi matilah ia dengan tiada beranak. |
| Italian | C'erano sette fratelli: il primo prese moglie e morì senza lasciare discendenza; |
| Maori | Na tera tetahi whanau, tokowhitu, he tuakana, he teina: ka tango to mua i te wahine, ka mate, a kahore he uri hei waihotanga iho. |
| Norwegian | Nu var det syv brødre; og den første tok sig en hustru, og efterlot ikke avkom da han døde. |
| Portuguese | Ora, havia sete irmãos; o primeiro casou-se e morreu sem deixar descendência; |
| Rumanian | Erau dar wapte frayi. Cel dintki s`a knsurat, wi a murit fqrq sq lase urmaw. |
| Shuar | Wats, siati yachi ármiayi. Iwiairi nuwan nuatak yajutmatsuk jakamiayi. |
| Swahili | Basi, kulikuwa na ndugu saba. Wa kwanza alioa, akafa bila kuacha mtoto. |
| Swedish | Nu voro här sju bröder. Den förste tog sig en hustru, men dog utan att lämna någon avkomma efter sig. |
| Uma | Jadi', ria pitu to ntali ompi' paka' tomane. To ulumua' motobinei, mate-i uma ria ana' -na. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dying": dyings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "dying": bandying, beladying, bloodying, bodying, brandying, buddying, caddying, candying, coembodying, disembodying, eddying, embodying, giddying, howdying, imbodying, muddying, outstudying, pandying, parodying, readying, rebodying, reembodying, remedying, restudying, steadying, studying, tidying, toadying, understudying, undying, unsteadying, untidying, waddying. (additional references) | |
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"Dying" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: daying, dieng, dieying, Di'ing, Diying, diy-ing, dling, dring, dwing, dyking, Dyoni, dyring, Dzyan, Myung, uying, ying. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dying" (pronounced dī"ing) |
| 4 | d ī" i ng | dyeing, undying. |
| 3 | -ī" i ng | applying, belying, buying, complying, crying, decrying, defying, denying, drying, eyeing, flying, frying, implying, indemnifying, lying, misapplying, overflying, overlying, plying, prying, relying, replying, retrying, semidrying, shying, sighing, spying, supplying, tieing, trying, tying, underlying, vying. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dingy. | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-i-n-y" | |
-1 letter: ding. | |
-2 letters: dig, din, gid, gin, yid, yin. | |
-3 letters: id, in. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-g-i-n-y" | |
+1 letter: dingey, dinghy, drying, dyeing, dyings, dyking. | |
+2 letters: bodying, defying, denying, dignify, dignity, dingeys, dingily, draying, dyeings, eddying, tidying, undying, yarding, yodling. | |
+3 letters: bandying, bodingly, buddying, caddying, candying, dairying, dallying, daringly, decaying, decoying, decrying, deifying, delaying, dirtying, divvying, dizzying, dollying, dotingly, dummying, dysgenic, edifying, giddying, grindery, gynecoid, howdying, indignly, muddying, pandying, readying, redrying, redyeing, studying, synergid, syringed, toadying, updrying, waddying, wingedly, yielding, yodeling. | |
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