单词	moribund
释义	moribundmor‧i‧bund /ˈmɒrəbʌnd $ ˈmɔː-, ˈmɑː-/ adjective Word Origin WORD ORIGINmoribund Origin: 1700-1800 Latin moribundus, from mori ‘to die’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES The Board is trying to stimulate the moribund economy. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS And with all of this expansion under way, companies have virtually no incentive to revive moribund refineries. As seasons passed, the priest could account for only eleven baptized people, moribund infants all. Not that there is anything moribund about her career. With inflation apparently moribund, a big jump in rates seems unlikely. 1a moribund organization, industry etc is no longer active or effective and may be coming to an end:  The region’s heavy industry is still inefficient and moribund. A cut in interest rates will help the country’s moribund housing market.2literary slowly dying:  The patient was moribund by the time the doctor arrived.
随便看	impel impending impenetrability impenetrable impenetrably imperative imperatively imperceptibility imperceptible imperceptibly imperfect imperfection imperfectly imperial Imperial College imperialism imperialist Imperial War Museum imperil imperious imperiously imperiousness imperishable impermanence impermanent

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