What is the meaning of dying?

noun

• The time when something ends.
  • usage: "it was the death of all his plans"; "a dying of old hopes"
  • synonyms: death, demise

verb

• Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life.
  • usage: "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"
  • synonyms: die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it
• Suffer or face the pain of death.
  • usage: "Martyrs may die every day for their faith"
  • synonyms: die
• Be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame.
  • usage: "I was dying with embarrassment when my little lie was discovered"; "We almost died laughing during the show"
  • synonyms: die
• Stop operating or functioning.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down
• Feel indifferent towards.
  • usage: "She died to worldly things and eventually entered a monastery"
  • synonyms: die
• Languish as with love or desire.
  • usage: "She dying for a cigarette"; "I was dying to leave"
  • synonyms: die
• Cut or shape with a die.
  • usage: "Die out leather for belts"
  • synonyms: die, die out
• To be on base at the end of an inning, of a player.
  • synonyms: die
• Lose sparkle or bouquet.
  • usage: "wine and beer can pall"
  • synonyms: die, pall, become flat
• Disappear or come to an end.
  • usage: "Their anger died"; "My secret will die with me"
  • synonyms: die
• Suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense. )
  • usage: "Whosoever.. Believes in me shall never die"
  • synonyms: die
• Color with dye.
  • usage: "Please dye these shoes"
  • synonyms: dye

adjective

• In or associated with the process of passing from life or ceasing to be.
  • usage: "a dying man"; "his dying wish"; "a dying fire"; "a dying civilization"
• Eagerly desirous.
  • usage: "anxious to see the new show at the museum"; "dying to hear who won"
  • synonyms: anxious