Trying vs Dying - What's the difference?
trying | dying |
Difficult to endure; arduous.
*1891 , Conan Doyle,
*:"Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a little trying to do so much typewriting?"
Irritating, stressful or bothersome.
(philosophy) The act by which one tries something; an attempt.
* 2006 , Andrew Sneddon, Action and Responsibility (page 145)
Approaching death; about to die; moribund.
Declining, terminal, or drawing to an end.
Pertaining to death, or the moments before death.
(plurale tantum) Those who are currently expiring, moribund.
The process of approaching death; or, less precisely , death itself.
(nonstandard) )
As adjectives the difference between trying and dying
is that trying is difficult to endure; arduous while dying is approaching death; about to die; moribund.As verbs the difference between trying and dying
is that trying is while dying is or dying can be (nonstandard) ).As nouns the difference between trying and dying
is that trying is (philosophy) the act by which one tries something; an attempt while dying is (plurale tantum) those who are currently expiring, moribund.trying
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- In a variety of places, O'Shaughnessy argues that there is an internal relation between trying and the events that tryings produce. For example, he argues that tryings are not independently specifiable except as would-be causes of physical events.
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*dying
English
(wikipedia dying)Etymology 1
Adjective
(-)- The dying dog was put out of his misery with a single shot!
- dying fire
- In the dying moments of daylight I glimpsed a sail on the horizon.
- His dying words were of his mother.
- until my dying day
- his dying bed
Antonyms
* nascentNoun
- The battlefield was littered with the dead and dying .