dying
adjective
ceasing to live; approaching death; expiring.
half-dying
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a word derived from
dying.
Example Sentences
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The whole town was agitated by the news that the father was dying beside his half-dying son.
From Beatrix by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
But, greatly to his relief, the figure immediately afterwards revealed itself in the person of one of the men, silently placing an armful of wood on the half-dying embers.
From From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Gordon Stables
What a concourse!" he cried, casting up his eyes with an expression of half-dying fatigue, "are you not accablé? for my part, I hardly respire.
From Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 by Fanny Burney
Innocent!—she who had once been all brightness and gaiety,—was this desolate, half-dying, stricken creature the same girl?
From Innocent : her fancy and his fact by Marie Corelli
The only man who was able to throw any light upon the subject was lying amongst them in an unconscious and half-dying condition.
From Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space by Jules Verne
