Moribund

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Moribund \Mor"i*bund\, a. [L. moribundus, from moriri to die.
     See {Mortal}.]
     In a dying state; dying; at the point of death.
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           The patient was comatose and moribund.   --Copland.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Moribund \Mor"i*bund\, n.
     A dying person. [R.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  moribund
       adj 1: not growing or changing; without force or vitality [syn: {stagnant}]
       2: on the point of death; breathing your last; "a moribund
          patient"; "the expiring man was carried home by his two
          friends"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  97 Moby Thesaurus words for "moribund":
     apathetic, bad, benumbed, blase, bored, cachectic, dead,
     debilitated, decadent, declining, despaired of, deteriorating,
     done for, dopey, dormant, drained, droopy, drugged, dull, dying,
     ending, enervated, exanimate, exhausted, expiring, facing death,
     fading, failing, feeble, frail, given up, going, healthless, heavy,
     hebetudinous, hopeless, in articulo mortis, in extremis,
     in poor health, inanimate, incapable of life, inert, infirm,
     invalid, jaded, lackadaisical, languid, languishing, languorous,
     leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, low, lumpish, near death,
     nonviable, numb, obsolescent, on the wane, pale, peaked, peaky,
     phlegmatic, pooped, reduced, reduced in health, run-down, sated,
     sickly, sinking, sleepy, slipping, slipping away, slow, sluggish,
     somnolent, stagnant, stagnating, stultified, supine, terminal,
     torpid, unhealthy, unsound, valetudinarian, valetudinary,
     vegetable, vegetative, wan, waning, weak, weakened, weakly, weary,
     with low resistance, world-weary