Meaning of MORIBUND
| Pronunciation: | | 'mâree`bund
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | adynamic, dying(a), expiring(a), stagnant, undynamic |
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\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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