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Moribund

In a dying state; dying; at the point of death.

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Adynamic 84% connected

Pertaining to, or characterized by, debility of the vital powers; weak.

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Adynamic 84% connected

Pertaining to, or characterized by, debility of the vital powers; weak.

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Dying 84% connected

of Die

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Dying 84% connected

of Die

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Stagnancy 74% connected

State of being stagnant.

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Stagnancy 74% connected

State of being stagnant.

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Stagnate 74% connected

To cease to flow; to be motionless; as, blood stagnates in the veins of an animal; hence, to become impure or foul by want of motion; as, air stagnat…

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Stagnate 74% connected

To cease to flow; to be motionless; as, blood stagnates in the veins of an animal; hence, to become impure or foul by want of motion; as, air stagnat…

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Stagnant 92% connected

That stagnates; not flowing; not running in a current or steam; motionless; hence, impure or foul from want of motion; as, a stagnant lake or pond; s…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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-ing unknown · 78% connection

A suffix used to form nouns from verbs, and signifying the act of; the result of the act; as, riding, dying, feeling. It has also a se…

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Commemorate verb · 78% connection

To call to remembrance by a special act or observance; to celebrate with honor and solemnity; to honor, as a person or event, by some…

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Commorient adjective · 78% connection

Dying together or at the same time.

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Cone noun · 78% connection

A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- call…

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Coroner noun · 78% connection

An officer of the peace whose principal duty is to inquire, with the help of a jury, into the cause of any violent, sudden or mysterio…

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Death verb · 78% connection

Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.

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Dolphin noun · 78% connection

The Coryphaena hippuris, a fish of about five feet in length, celebrated for its surprising changes of color when dying. It is the fis…

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Dyingly adverb · 78% connection

In a dying manner; as if at the point of death.

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Dyingness noun · 78% connection

The state of dying or the stimulation of such a state; extreme languor; languishment.

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East noun · 78% connection

The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to rise at the equinox, or the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four c…

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Escheat noun · 78% connection

The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction of the…

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Euthanasia noun · 78% connection

An easy death; a mode of dying to be desired.

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Expiring adjective · 78% connection

Breathing out air from the lungs; emitting fluid or volatile matter; exhaling; breathing the last breath; dying; ending; terminating.

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Flicker noun · 78% connection

The act of wavering or of fluttering; flucuation; sudden and brief increase of brightness; as, the last flicker of the dying flame.

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Flurry noun · 78% connection

The violent spasms of a dying whale.

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Focus noun · 78% connection

A point so related to a conic section and certain straight line called the directrix that the ratio of the distace between any point o…

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Gavelkind noun · 78% connection

A tenure by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, de…

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Intestacy noun · 78% connection

The state of being intestate, or of dying without having made a valid will.

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