dying
WordReference English Thesaurus © 2025
Sense: Adjective: nearing the end of life
Synonyms:
terminal Collocations, terminally ill, expiring, near death, close to death, done for , sinking Collocations, moribund, passing away, going Collocations, perishing, failing Collocations, fading Collocations, fading fast, at death's door, on your deathbed, not long for this world, with one foot in the grave, knocking on heaven's door, breathing your last, passing Collocations, fated, ill-fated, doomed Collocations, end-of-life
Antonyms:
living Collocations, alive Collocations, full of life, live Collocations, blooming, flourishing, developing Collocations, growing Collocations, thriving Collocations, enduring Collocations, immortal, eternal
Sense: Adjective: becoming worse or less
Synonyms:
declining, deteriorating, weakening, sinking Collocations, receding, smoldering, smouldering , fizzling, dwindling, diminishing, decreasing, disappearing, dissolving, disintegrating, vanishing, failing Collocations, fading Collocations, ebbing, waning, decaying, lessening, on its way out
Antonyms:
improving, advancing, growing Collocations, flourishing, thriving Collocations, enduring Collocations
die
WordReference English Thesaurus © 2025
Sense: Verb: cease living
Synonyms:
pass away, pass on, decease, expire Collocations, depart Collocations, perish, drop dead, cease to exist, stop breathing, lose your life, cease to be, be no more, succumb, go Collocations, meet your maker, meet your death, be taken, go to heaven, fade away, rest in peace, pay the supreme sacrifice, lay down your life, kick the bucket , turn to dust , bite the dust , give up the ghost , croak , slip away, keel over, check out, end your days
Antonyms:
Sense: Verb: cease to exist
Synonyms:
stop Collocations, extinguish, recede, vanish Collocations, become extinct, be heard of no more, be no more, come to nothing, not leave a trace, dissolve, disappear Collocations, die out, go out, evanesce, burn out, evaporate, die off, be null and void, discontinue, die the death
Antonyms:
endure Collocations, exist Collocations, go on, continue Collocations, persist, begin Collocations, commence Collocations, start Collocations
Sense: Verb: go into a decline
Synonyms:
decline Collocations, fade Collocations, sink Collocations, wither Collocations, go downhill, deteriorate, wane Collocations, ebb Collocations, peter out, fade away, melt away, die out, weaken Collocations, subside Collocations, rot Collocations, run low, crumble Collocations, abate Collocations, die down, droop, lapse Collocations, diminish Collocations, decay Collocations, molder, moulder , go into a decline
Antonyms:
Sense: Verb: stop working - informal
Synonyms:
stop working, stop functioning, break down, give out, fail Collocations, stop Collocations, stall Collocations, cut out, break Collocations