Dying
Dying adjective - Nearly dead.
Usage example: we watered the dying plants just in time
Fading
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Most notably during the "I like your hands" scene, on the morning that they go to the Marine Cathedral expecting to have to kill an innocent person and again while they're dying/fading out of existence at the end of Stars.
Source: Intertwined Fingers - One of the characters literally suffers heart failure before dying and fading away.
Source: Unexplained Recovery - When the tree-people began fading and dying out, her sister tried marrying a human king to revitalize her people through their offspring, but she was betrayed and the tree-people decided to revert entirely to trees.
Source: Dying Race
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