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decay English

Meaning decay meaning

What does decay mean?
Definitions in simple English

decay Verb

— If something decays it rots. The body decayed. My teeth were decaying because I ate too much sugar. — If something decays it gets weaker and is destroyed slowly. Their empire decayed because the leaders were fools.

decay Noun

— Decay is the act of decaying. Nothing could stop the decay at the time. — Decay is material (stuff) that is decaying or has decayed. My teeth were full of decay.

decay

— verb (= disintegrate) lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current the particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process — verb fall into decay or ruin The unoccupied house started to decay — noun a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current — noun the process of gradually becoming inferior — noun the organic phenomenon of rotting — noun (= disintegration) the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation — noun an inferior state resulting from the process of decaying the corpse was in an advanced state of decay the house had fallen into a serious state of decay and disrepair — verb undergo decay or decomposition The body started to decay and needed to be cremated

Synonyms decay synonyms

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decay English » English

rot decline putrefy decompose decomposition spoil wither ruin disintegration deterioration destruction wane waste away rottenness putrefaction dilapidation corruption degeneration waste go bad deteriorate perish decrease decadence crumble loss collapse radioactive decay fall disintegrate breakdown ruination putridity putrescence moulder molder downfall diminution decrepitude corrode withering wear out weakening spoilage sinking rotting infirmity fall apart failure fail

Topics decay topics

What do people use decay to talk about?
States Quality Good

Decay
Universe, creation Living things

Dead things
Universe, creation Plant

Growth of plants
Person Life Die

Corpse
Person Healthy Disease

Tooth decay

Conjugation decay conjugation

How do you conjugate decay?

decay · verb

Examples decay examples

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Simple sentences

Salt helps to preserve food from decay.
Salt preserves fish from decay.
The decay of the shrine is due, in part, to acid rain.
Time was running out for the Earthlings as their planetary environment was in decay. Space travel became a necessity.
We have to pick those apples right now, otherwise they'll decay.
Some soft drinks have very high sugar content and can cause obesity and tooth decay if consumed to excess.
Many local traditions have fallen into decay in recent years.
Fruits decay in the sun.
Fruits tend to decay soon.
The apple has begun to decay.
Two great civilizations slowly fell into decay.
Actinium-227 is a decay product of uranium-235.
Judging by the degree of decay of the remains, the horse was shot about a week ago.

Movie subtitles

Decay.
No blood, no decay.
At night these creatures from the abyss haunt the abodes of the living, where they sow death and decay.
When the older ones among us falter. the youth will stiffen and remain until their bodies decay.
All of his garments gone to decay. Powerless he to move from that place, To lift a hand, or even to stand.
Eyes without focus, flesh without feeling lips with no tongue, utter decay.
There's no beauty here, only death and decay.
After discovering the ailing tooth, the next thing is to drill away the decay.
I warn you, gentlemen, I cannot sit here much longer, watching my army decay.
OXYTONE will arrest decay, remove yellow film and restore teeth to a beautiful whiteness.
Corrosion and decay. Everywhere, the same story.
It's the effect of decay.
Or, in consequence of the decay of guilds. the woolen cloth, now coming out of Yorkshire, Lincoln. and the like, is not to blame and this.
Then why has it been allowed to fall into decay like this?
The glitter of putrescence. There's no beauty here, only death and decay.
That underground smell, the sick sweetness of decay.
Check rate of radioactive decay.
About that nuclear decay factor, Ruth, I'm afraid my equation just doesn't seem to work.
And we decay with every minute while nelda the maid and robert the butler and gretchen the cook and jensen the handyman. jana!
Uniting regulated reactions of synthesis and decay.
Everything at Mittsunda and Frostnas is in the grips of death and decay.
Or, in consequence of the decay of guilds the woolen cloth, now coming out of Yorkshire, Lincoln and the like, is not to blame and this..
Yes, let him observe the mental decay that sets in when an active mind is jailed for a while.
But the decay goes too deep.
We lepers have nothing but stink and decay.
Couldn't have been heat, then, and age would merely decay.
And when the orbit begins to decay?
What does that mean? The orbit is beginning to decay.
Without full crystal power, our orbit will begin to decay in ten hours.
But the smell of decay is already coming from your pleasures!
My moral decay didn't start here.
You must fathom the new laws that govern this decay and adjust yourself to them.
Even the flowers smell of decay.
Old men decay and each becomes quite distinct.
My dear girl, this is a perfect example of an early pulse mechanism based on the principal of caesium decay.

News and current affairs

Conversely, the Western Roman Empire did not succumb to another state, but instead to internal decay and swarms of barbarians.
Post-Blair Britain is becoming a country for which wars that lack international legitimacy can only presage defeat and moral decay.
In this narrative, the Cold War was not so much won by the US and the West as lost by the Soviets, the inevitable result of Soviet economic weakness and political decay.
The boom in the successful cities, therefore, will hollow out human capital from less attractive industrial hubs, which will then fall into a vicious cycle of decay and falling productivity.
The nationalist Council for National Strategy published a devastating report on the decay of Russia's military under Putin.
However much military hardware a superpower owns, decay of the will to use it is the same thing as a decay of effective power.
The country is caught between two choices: progressive reform or continuing paralysis and decay.
Asians, for their part, viewed Europe as either a model of modernity, as in Meiji Japan, or a barometer of decay, as in China.
The content of chlorine (from decay of CFC's) in the stratosphere has leveled off, and two years ago the ozone hole over the Antarctic was the smallest in decades (and broken up into two).
Consider the old metaphysical puzzle: is a wooden boat whose planks are gradually replaced as they decay the same boat after all the planks have been changed?
In the nineteenth century, Europe's southern and eastern extremities were united by common decay.
Russia's government knows that chaos and decay to its south carry grave economic, social, and security risks.
Universities: Renaissance or Decay?
Currents set up in superconducting wires can exist for years without any measurable decay.
Furthermore, in unleashing the power of money, the Thatcherites, for all their moralizing, contributed to the moral decay of the West.
Without a fundamental reset, relations between Russia and Europe will continue to decay, eventually becoming characterized by benign neglect.
The EU is not proof of the decay of the nation-state.
Since such feelings cannot simply be wished away, it is better to allow for their ritual expression, just as fears of death, violence, and decay find expression in religion or bull fighting.
Rejecting diversity - whether by suppressing differences at home or cutting off outsiders - accelerates decay.
First, they must identify patterns in the debris that could have come from the production and rapid decay of a Higgs particle.
But Israel's breathtaking victory against three Arab armies in 1967 brought it not only grandeur, but also moral and political decay.
In fact, opponents of the bill fail to mention that traditional marriage is in a fairly advanced state of decay in Western societies.
And Shakespeare noted that tooth decay was a cause of awful pain and unpleasant odor.
Much negotiating blood has been spilled on the Treaty, and its rejection a second time by Irish voters would leave the Union unable to ratify and implement its provisions; this would inevitably lead to policy paralysis and institutional decay.
It may even accelerate Russia's internal decay.
Like the geriatric successions that preceded the collapse of the Soviet Union, the succession in Saudi Arabia seems to be only a step in an inexorable march toward political decay.

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