Moribund

['mɒrɪbʌnd] or ['mɔrɪbʌnd]

(adj.) being on the point of death; breathing your last; 'a moribund patient' .

Checker: Marge--From WordNet

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

(n.) A dying person.

Editor: Yvonne

a. Dying, at the point of death, on one's death-bed, at death's door, with one foot in the grave, on one's last legs, at the last gasp.

Typed by Darla

adj. about to die: in a dying state.

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All that belongs to a moribund tradition. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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