dying

Adjective

• eagerly desirous
  • anxious to see the new show at the museum
    
  • dying to hear who won
    

• in or associated with the process of passing from life or ceasing to be
  • a dying man
    
  • his dying wish
    
  • a dying fire
    
  • a dying civilization
    

Noun

• the time when something ends
  • it was the death of all his plans
    
  • a dying of old hopes
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  anxious(p) , dying(p) , death , demise
• Antonyms: 
  nascent , birth