(of a person) at the point of death (人)垂死的 ■(of a thing) in terminal decline; lacking vitality or vigour (物)行将灭亡的;缺乏活力的 the moribund commercial property market. 凋敝的商用房地产交易市场。
派生 moribundity noun 语源
early 18th cent.: from Latin moribundus, from mori 'to die'