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Finally, dyeing means to stain something with color, with the origins: c.1400, verbal noun and pp. adj. from dye. Why is dying the gerund/verb form of to die? For one thing, it follows a general rule of forming gerunds: The vowel group -ie is changed to -y before adding -ing.
1675 T. Brooks Golden Key 118 He that dyed on the Cross, was long a dying. Die is an Early Middle English word (entered the language around 1100–1300), and was routinely spelled with a y : ... the word appears to have been in general use from the 12th cent., even in the s.w. dialects (see Napier in Hist. Holy Rood, E.E.T.S., 1894).
The greeting How are you? is asking How are you doing in general? — How are you? I'm well. [Misunderstood the question.] because well as an adjective which means: in good health especially
Stop beating banging your head against a wall, if you wish to avoid unsavoury animal-cruelty based clichés.. I think you were almost there since the usual form of the cliché in your question is flogging a dead horse.
"Die from cancer" vs. "die of cancer" Ask Question Asked 11 years, 2 months ago.
In England, "How do you do?" was until recently a commonplace greeting. The correct response was, "How do you do?"
The sentences are quite similar. They convey similar meanings. Without being overly technical (not that I'm capable of it), I suggest sentence number one sounds more definite than sentence two.
Strictly speaking it's damp - OED: to stifle, choke, extinguish; to dull, deaden (fire, sound, etc.). As a child, it was my job to damp the fire (9600 hits in Google Books) every night by closing off the stove's air supply.
"Suggest to go" vs. "suggest going" Ask Question Asked 11 years, 2 months ago. Modified 9 years, 4 months ago.
And then been forced to re-analyse later, when you finally came to the actual word explicitly stated. Which could have been even later - I could have written "You can't prevent an unemployed person watching daytime TV drinking too much from dying young" (forget the missing "and's" and commas).