Hypertext Webster Gateway: "moribund"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Moribund \Mor"i*bund\, a. [L. moribundus, from moriri to die.
See {Mortal}.]
In a dying state; dying; at the point of death.
The patient was comatose and moribund. --Copland.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Moribund \Mor"i*bund\, n.
A dying person. [R.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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" [syn: {expiring(a)}]
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