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We think the answer is "DYING" which means:

adjective
• • In or associated with the process of passing from life or ceasing to be
noun
• • The time when something ends
adjective satellite
• • Eagerly desirous
verb
• • To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
• • To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
• • To yearn intensely.
• • To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
• • To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
• • To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
• • To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
• • (of a machine) to stop working, to break down.
• • (of a computer program) to abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
• • To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
• • To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
• • (often with "to") to become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
• • To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
• • To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
• • (of a stand-up comedian or a joke) to fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
• • To colour with dye, or as if with dye.

An example sentence would be:

• • "She is a dying old woman in need of medical attention."
• • "The dying flames of the fire flickered in the dark room."

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