moribund — in a dying state or near death
moribundo/moribunda — these are the masculine and feminine Spanish cognates with the same meaning
People often joke that to speak Spanish, all you have to do is add an -o to the end of your English words. That rarely works, actually, but in the case of “moribund” it does work, for the masculine form at least.
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