Dying (Noun)
Meaning
The time when something ends; "it was the death of all his plans"; "a dying of old hopes".
Classification
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations.
Examples
- The company's financial struggles marked the dying of its ambitious expansion plans.
- The news of the cancelled concert was the dying of all their excitement and anticipation.
- The decline of the industry was a slow and painful dying of a once-thriving business.
- The failure of the experiment was the dying of their hopes for a breakthrough discovery.
- The loss of their main investor was the dying of the startup's chances for success.