Expiring

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Expire.

II. Expiring ·adj Pertaining to, or uttered at, the time of dying; as, expiring words; expiring groans.

III. Expiring ·adj Breathing out air from the lungs; emitting fluid or volatile matter; exhaling; breathing the last breath; dying; ending; terminating.