moribund

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1 FINISH/COME TO AN ENDa moribund organization, industry etc is no longer active or effective and may be coming to an end 〔機構、行業等〕沒有活力的，死氣沉沉的，行將消亡的

The region’s heavy industry is still inefficient and moribund.

該地區的重工業依然效率低下，沒有活力。

A cut in interest rates will help the country’s moribund housing market.

利率的下調對於該國疲軟的住房市場將起到促進作用。

2 literaryFINISH/COME TO AN END slowly dying 垂死的，奄奄一息的

The patient was moribund by the time the doctor arrived.

醫生趕到的時候病人已經奄奄一息。

Examples from the Corpus

moribund• With inflation apparently moribund, a big jump in rates seems unlikely.• Not that there is anything moribund about her career.• The Board is trying to stimulate the moribund economy.• As seasons passed, the priest could account for only eleven baptized people, moribund infants all.• And with all of this expansion under way, companies have virtually no incentive to revive moribund refineries.

Origin moribund

(1700-1800) Latin moribundus, from mori “to die”

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