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Contexts ▼▲ Verb Present participle for to succumb to death willingly or finally Present participle for to die or cease living Present participle for to stop operating Adjective At the point of death or losing one's life … more ▼ ▲ Verb ▲ Present participle for to succumb to death willingly or finally croaking passing away departing this life biting the dust breathing one's last kicking the bucket yielding the ghost yielding up the ghost “After years of battling a terminal illness, he made the difficult decision to give up the ghost and peacefully passed away surrounded by loved ones.” Verb ▲ Present participle for to die or cease living dying deceasing perishing flatlining expiring croaking demising departing falling succumbing going exiting parting dropping ending passing away passing on conking out checking out pegging out popping off stepping out kicking off kicking in kicking the bucket biting the dust snuffing it departing this life buying it going the way of all flesh crossing the great divide breathing one's last shuffling off this mortal coil going the way of the flesh carking it going belly up going bung hopping the twig popping your clogs buying the farm hopping the stick ceasing to exist kicking it going belly-up pegging it going to the great beyond crossing the Styx cashing in one's chips going under biting the big one going the way of the dinosaurs going to glory resting in peace passing meeting your maker conking meeting your end pushing up the daisies losing life relinquishing life ceasing living pushing up daisies dying a death disappearing ceasing collapsing taking your last breath striking out invalidating up and dying passing over suffocating drowning sucking the kumara going way of all flesh dropping dead dropping off giving up wilting giving way going down packing it in meeting waterloo slipping away cashing in folding up running through caving breathing one's last breath vanishing becoming extinct dying out dying off kicking in [slang] ruining desisting abolishing exterminating waning going west going to the wall shoving off fizzling out running out fainting going to one's reward swooning losing consciousness going out sinking down passing out keeling over falling unconscious flaking out falling down blacking out dwindling becoming less common becoming rarer passing into oblivion ceasing to be petering out punching one's ticket buying the ranch farming falling asleep crossing over going to be with the Lord going home more ❯ “After battling a long illness, the old tree finally decided to give up the ghost and wither away.” Verb ▲ Present participle for to stop operating failing breaking crashing malfunctioning stopping collapsing dying stalling bombing ceasing terminating busting vitiating idling spoiling compromising damaging pausing endamaging halting weakening attenuating discontinuing degrading interrupting yielding acting up breaking down stopping working giving out giving up giving way going wrong playing up shutting off biting the dust ceasing to function ceasing to work cutting short falling over going down developing a fault going haywire going kaput going phut packing up seizing up conking out cutting off cutting out giving in going to pieces going on the blink jamming seizing grinding to a halt having had it going coming to a halt expiring quitting aborting buckling folding tanking giving floundering foundering fizzling crumpling flunking flopping cratering falling flatlining fizzling out flaming out going belly-up stopping functioning caving in falling flat petering out fading away fading out losing power running down coming unstuck running aground miscarrying falling through coming to grief coming to nothing meeting with disaster going awry falling short going up in smoke going pear-shaped backfiring missing boomeranging misfiring rebounding blundering slipping recoiling coming to naught coming a cropper going amiss going out of control declining deteriorating backsliding missing the mark turning out badly losing control going downhill hitting bottom going down swinging backing wrong horse losing out playing into ganging agley missing the boat going astray hitting the skids losing status pooping out failing to go off fizzing out not coming off going to the wall coming to a bad end going on the rocks going down like a lead balloon coming to a sticky end meeting with failure more ❯ Adjective ▲ At the point of death or losing one's life dying doomed perishing moribund mortal poisoned near death fading fast sinking fast near the end at death's door in extremis passing away breathing your last done for on its last legs on the way out on last leg not long for this world terminally ill on your deathbed with one foot in the grave in the jaws of death on the point of death one foot in grave fading declining decaying failing rapidly foundering mortally ill on your last legs having one foot in the grave withering waning crumbling atrophying sinking on the decline in decline medium dead at the end of the rope at end of one's rope slipping away one foot in the grave disintegrating fey succumbing collapsing fated passing half dead expiring dire weakening regressing deteriorating fatally poisoned disappearing failing past its prime near-death ill more ❯ Find more words! 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