About The Word Moribund
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Moribund
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What's The Definition Of Moribund?
[adj] on the point of death; breathing your last; "a moribund patient"; "the expiring man was carried home by his two friends"
[adj] not growing or changing; without force or vitality Synonyms | Synonyms for Moribund: adynamic | dying(a) | expiring(a) | stagnant | undynamic Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 See Also | Moribund In Webster's Dictionary \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.
\Mor"i*bund\, n. A dying person. [R.] |
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