different between dying vs terminally

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?da?.??/
• Homophone: dyeing

Etymology 1

die +? -ing

Adjective

dying (not comparable)

1. Approaching death; about to die; moribund.

   The dying dog was put out of his misery with a single shot!

   a dying fire

   The battlefield was littered with the dead and dying.

2. Declining, terminal, or drawing to an end.

   In the dying moments of daylight I glimpsed a sail on the horizon.

3. Pertaining to death, or the moments before death.

   His dying words were of his mother.

   until my dying day

   his dying bed

Antonyms

• nascent

Translations

Noun

dying (countable and uncountable, plural dyings)

1. The process of approaching death; loss of life; death.

Translations

Verb

dying

1. present participle of die

Etymology 2

dye +? -ing

Verb

dying

1. (nonstandard) present participle of dye

Anagrams

• dingy

English

Etymology

terminal +? -ly

Adverb

terminally (comparative more terminally, superlative most terminally)

1. In a terminal manner.
2. Leading to death; lasting until death.

   terminally ill

   • 2009, Stefanie Wilder-Taylor, It's Not Me, It's You: Subjective Recollections from a Terminally Optimistic, Chronically Sarcastic, and Occasionally Inebriated Woman.
3. (military, of missile guidance) To the target.

   terminally guided

4. (location) At the end.
   • 1919, Robert Ridgway, Herbert Friedmann, The Birds of North and Middle America, Part 8, Issue 1919, page 276,

     […] some of the feathers (especially posterior scapulars) with the broad edgings more rufescent and passing into whitish terminally ;