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Lying vs Dying - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between lying and dying

is that lying is present participle of lang=en while dying is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between lying and dying

is that lying is an act of telling a lie, or falsehood while dying is those who are currently expiring, moribund.

As an adjective dying is

approaching death; about to die; moribund.

lying

English

(wikipedia lying)

Verb

(head)
  • * 1811 , , Sense and Sensibility The Free Library , Chapter 19:
    • Without shutting herself up from her family ... or lying awake the whole night to indulge meditation, Elinor found every day afforded her leisure enough to think of Edward..

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of telling a lie, or falsehood.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • The act of one who lies, or keeps low to the ground.
  • * Saint Augustine, Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    • But whom could the lyings in wait of the human heart escape?

    dying

    English

    (wikipedia dying)

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Approaching death; about to die; moribund.
    • The dying dog was put out of his misery with a single shot!
    dying fire
  • Declining, terminal, or drawing to an end.
    • In the dying moments of daylight I glimpsed a sail on the horizon.
  • Pertaining to death, or the moments before death.
    • His dying words were of his mother.
    until my dying day
    his dying bed
    Antonyms
    * nascent

    Noun

  • (plurale tantum) Those who are currently expiring, moribund.
    • The battlefield was littered with the dead and dying .
  • The process of approaching death; or, less precisely , death itself.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (head)
  • (nonstandard) )

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