Synonyms for moribund
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : mawr-uh-buhnd, mor- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈmɔr əˌbʌnd, ˈmɒr- |
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Définition of moribund
Origin :- 1721, "about to die," from Middle French moribund (16c.), from Latin moribundus "dying, at the point of death," from mori "to die" (see mortal (adj.)). Figurative sense of "near an end" is from 1837. Related: Moribundity.
- adj dying
- More than the population of the moribund city, at least as Harkaman remembered it.
- Extract from : « Space Viking » by Henry Beam Piper
- "You can tell my country, sir, that I died willingly," panted the moribund.
- Extract from : « The Dop Doctor » by Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
- I saw for myself the return of life to a body that was moribund.
- Extract from : « The Blue Germ » by Martin Swayne
- Together the two works are an epitome of modern and moribund Iran.
- Extract from : « The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan » by James Morier
- Surely it was time to infuse new blood into the veins of the moribund art.
- Extract from : « The Reef » by Edith Wharton
- And yet let it not be supposed that Islam in India is either dead or moribund.
- Extract from : « India, Its Life and Thought » by John P. Jones
- He countered his questioner: 'Just to liberate you from your moribund state, my friend.'
- Extract from : « One of Our Conquerors, Complete » by George Meredith
- Only the rescue party came out, one carrying a moribund cat.
- Extract from : « Old Junk » by H. M. Tomlinson
- The weather is not very propitious for that moribund scoundrel.
- Extract from : « Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo » by Louis Guimbaud
- It is a sentence of death or (it may be) of new life to all moribund nationalities.
- Extract from : « The Popular Science Monthly, June, 1900 » by Various
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