[
UK
/mˈɔːɹɪbˌʌnd/
]
[ US /ˈmɔɹəbənd/ ]
[ US /ˈmɔɹəbənd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
being on the point of death; breathing your last
a moribund patient - not growing or changing; without force or vitality
How To Use moribund In A Sentence
- And that culture was nowhere near moribund, but being kept alive, and by ordinary people as much as ‘elites’.
- He said he had to go on a listening tour of voters because'very safe Labour wards have become moribund. Times, Sunday Times
- A poetaster's aesthetic feathers had been ruffled, but his humanity, anemic and amoral, had remained unstirred, somnolent, and moribund.
- Founded in 1915 in Georgia, the "modern" Ku Klux Klan, an anti-Negro, anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic organization, reached its peak of power in the U.S. in the mid-twenties; is now moribund. Albert Lutuli - Nobel Lecture
- I'm not a marketing whiz, but now that the Alliance brand has been defeated and moribund for 3 years, it's over as a political brand.
- Hans Nielsen Hauge was a reformer in nineteenth-century Norway when the state church there was getting pretty moribund. Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
- The patient was moribund by the time the doctor arrived.
- Without loans the economy is moribund. Times, Sunday Times
- Most of the moribund patients recovered due to his treatment.
- A poetaster's aesthetic feathers had been ruffled, but his humanity, anemic and amoral, had remained unstirred, somnolent, and moribund.