moribund
/MOR-ih-bund/adjectiveat the point of death; in terminal decline
“The town's moribund mill limps along on one shift a week.”
- Synonyms
- dying, declining, stagnant
- Antonyms
- thriving, flourishing
- Root
- mort- (death)
- Memory hook
- mori (die) + bund: bound for death.
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