moribund

outdated

No longer in use

• antiquatedOld and outdated
• archaicBelonging to earlier times
• outmodedNo longer in fashion

dying breed · relic · vestigial · anachronistic · superseded · defunct · passé · old-fashioned · on the way out · has-been

decay

Gradual organic breakdown

• deteriorationProcess of declining quality
• collapseSudden structural failure
• downfallSudden loss of power

atrophy · degeneration · waning · erosion · regression · contraction · dying out · crumbling · disintegration · fading

deathbed

Dying person's resting place

• terminalAt the endpoint
• palliativeOffering relief, not remedy
• last ritesSacrament for the dying

expiring · doomed · perishing · demise · fatal · succumbing · death throes · end-stage · hospice · final breath

dormant

Inactive but capable

• inertInactive, physically or chemically
• staticWithout motion or change
• sluggishSlow and inactive

languishing · idle · torpid · lethargic · lifeless · paralyzed · comatose · vegetative · suspended · inactive

wilting

Losing turgor and drooping

• shrivelingContracting from moisture loss
• desiccatedThoroughly dehydrated
• blightedHarmed by destructive force

wizened · sapless · sere · decayed · parched · drooping · withered · barren · effete · exhausted

dying language

• revitalizationRestoring vigor or vitality
• extinctNo longer existing
• documentationWritten proof or instructions

preservation · heritage · Maori · Hawaiian · indigenous · vanishing · at-risk · critically endangered · minority language · assimilation

• states of beingalive, dead, living, existing, conscious
• life statusalive, dead, deceased, living, dying
• Terminal Illnessterminal cancer, terminal diagnosis, incurable disease, end-stage, dying
• spoiledrotten, rotted, rotting, spoiled, spoiling
• conditionsmedical condition, weather conditions, environmental conditions, living conditions, working conditions
• fancy wordsgrandiloquent, magniloquent, sesquipedalian, pulchritudinous, tintinnabulation