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moribund

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1. moribund - Noun

2. moribund - Adjective

3. moribund - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

In a dying state; dying; at the point of death.

A dying person.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund. Anthony Bourdain

It's a moribund body anyway, afflicted with the narrowest conservatism and stuffed with old relics only concerned with protecting their privileges. I'm not sure anything can be done with the Counts in the long run. Perhaps they should finally be allowed to dodder over the brink of extinction. Lois McMaster Bujold

The world is changing much too fast for us to have a moribund system which is not flexible, which cannot evolve and develop with changes in our society, in our country, as they come about in the world. Rajiv Gandhi

Christ is dead and his teachings moribund. Benito Mussolini

Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art. Ellsworth Kelly

Ah that Senate is a world of ice and darkness It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing for its members themselves are moribund. George Sand

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