on one's deathbed

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moribund adj.
terminally ill adj.
dying day n.

ADJECTIVE

moribund

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at death's door at the end of the rope declining done for doomed expiring fading fated going mortal mortally ill on one's last leg one foot in the grave passing perishing

ADJECTIVE

terminally ill

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WEAK

at death's door in critical condition on the critical list

NOUN

dying day

Synonyms

WEAK

end of life

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on one's deathbed

T. Tembarom to live with until one lay down on one's deathbed.

From T. Tembarom by Frances Hodgson Burnett

True, it is a solemn thing to lie for days on one's deathbed, waiting, waiting, not knowing the day nor the hour of the last breath.

From Great Jehoshaphat and Gully Dirt! by Jewell Ellen Smith

on one's deathbed

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