Moribund
Moribund
(MOR-ih-bund)
Adjective:
-(of a person) At the point of death. -(of a thing) In terminal decline; lacking vitality or vigor. -Being in the state of dying; approaching death. -Being in a state of inactivity or obsolescence
Use instead of:
-Dying
-On one's deathbed
-At death's door
-'bout to kick the bucket
1721, from Middle French moribund (16c.), from Latin moribundus - dying, at the point of death, from mori - to die. Figurative sense of near an end is from 1837
Used in a sentence:
“Try though he may, he just can’t seem to breathe new life into his moribund career.”
