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decaynoun a gradual sinking and wasting away of mind or bodymiddle-aged people who fervently hope that daily exercise will arrest the physical decay that usually accompanies advancing age debilitation, decaying, declension, decline, degeneration, descent, deterioration, ebbing, enfeeblement, weakening atrophyexhaustiondrooping, flagging, limpingregression, relapse, setback comeback, improvement, rally, recovery, recuperation, rehabilitation, revitalization, snapback invigoration, strengtheningprogressrejuvenation, rejuvenescence the process by which dead organic matter separates into simpler substancesthe cycle by which the decay of dead plants on the forest floor provides soil and nutrients for the next generation of plants breakdown, corruption, decomposition, festering, putrefaction, putrescence, rot, spoilage crumbling, disintegration, dissolutioncurdling, fermentation, moldering, souring growth, maturation, ripening to go through decompositionthe logs decayed on the rain forest floor the atom of plutonium decayed in the test chamber break down, corrupt, decompose, disintegrate, fester, foul, mold, molder, perish(chiefly British), putrefy, rot, spoil sour, turn, turn off(British)contaminate, defile, pollute, taintaddle, curdle, fermentmortifyrustcrumble, decline, degenerate, descend, deteriorate, dilapidate, sink, wither fall apart, go to seed(or run to seed) age, develop, grow, mature, ripenrefresh, renew, restorecleanse, purifyassemble, compose, integrateameliorate, better, improve, meliorate to become worse or of less valuethe restaurant's standards for food and service had decayed over the years atrophy, crumble, decline, degenerate, descend, deteriorate, devolve, ebb, regress, retrograde, rot, sink, worsen abate, de-escalate, diminish, downsize, dwindle, recede, wanebreak down, corrupt, decompose, degrade, dilapidate, disintegrate, molder, putrefysour, spoillessen, lower, reducedebilitate, underminedroop, fail, fall, flag, lag, languish, run down, sag, slip, waste (away), weaken, wilt go to pot, go to seed(or run to seed) ameliorate, improve, meliorate better, upgradeenhance, enrich, fortify, heighten, intensify, strengthenadvance, develop, march, proceed, progress to lose bodily strength or vigorhaving reached her 80s, the woman could sense that her body was decaying droop, emaciate, fade, fail, flag, go, lag, languish, sag, sink, waste (away), weaken, wilt, wither break down, wear outyielddegenerate, deteriorate, rot, run down convalesce, rally, rebound, recover, recuperategain v.decay, decompose, rot, putrefy, spoil mean to undergo destructive dissolution.decay implies a slow change from a state of soundness or perfection.a decaying mansion decompose stresses a breaking down by chemical change and when applied to organic matter a corruption.the strong odor of decomposing vegetation rot is a close synonym of decompose and often connotes foulness.fruit was left to rot in warehouses putrefy implies the rotting of animal matter and offensiveness to sight and smell.corpses putrefying on the battlefield spoil applies chiefly to the decomposition of foods.keep the ham from spoiling in the 15th century |