Time

Synonyms for dying

The synonym for dying recorded in this bank is death, in the sense "the time when something ends". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 1, Foothills · 1 sense · noun · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The synonym for dying

deathnoun, in the sense "the time when something ends"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for dying.

The sensenounTier 1, FoothillsTime

the time when something ends

A dying of old hopes.

The sentence the game shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

death

Same sentence, swapped: A death of old hopes.

Close but different

Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.

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Where dying turns up in the game

dying is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where dying is the trap

flyingnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is flight, in the sense "an instance of traveling by air", and dying is one of the three tiles that lose.
retiringadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is unassuming, in the sense "not arrogant or presuming", with dying sitting one tile away.

Play dying

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so dying reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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The same bank, read from both sides

dying is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 2. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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