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decayedadjective having lost forcefulness, courage, or spirita candidate who vehemently rejects the idea that liberalism is a decayed political philosophy decadent, degenerate, effete, overripe, washed-up overrefined, preciousdecaying, declining, dying, failing, waningdebilitated, enervate, enervated, enfeebled, feeble, frail, languid, sapped, soft, wasted, weak, weakened, wimpydissolute, immoraldebased, debauched, degraded, demoralized, depraved, dissipated, dissolute undecadent having undergone organic breakdownwe routinely throw all decayed or unwanted organic matter into our compost heap addled, bad, corrupted, decomposed, putrefied, putrid, rotten, spoiled curdled, fermented, off, rancid, rank, sour, soured, sourish, turnedcontaminated, defiled, fouled, impure, polluted, taintedcorroded, crumbled, degenerated, deteriorated, disintegrateddecaying, decomposing, disintegrating, mildewy, moldering, moldy, putrefying, putrescent, rottinggangrenous undecomposed fresh, good, sweetpreserved, pristine, uncontaminated, undefiled, unpolluted, unspoiled, untainted, untouched decayedverbpast tense of decayto go through decompositionthe logs decayed on the rain forest floor the atom of plutonium decayed in the test chamber broke down, corrupted, decomposed, disintegrated, festered, fouled, molded, moldered, perished(chiefly British), putrefied, rotted, spoiled(or chiefly British spoilt) soured, turned, turned off(British)contaminated, defiled, polluted, taintedaddled, curdled, fermentedmortifiedrustedcrumbled, declined, degenerated, descended, deteriorated, dilapidated, sank(or sunk), withered fell apart, went to seed(or ran to seed) aged, developed, grew, matured, ripenedrefreshed, renewed, restoredcleansed, purifiedassembled, composed, integratedameliorated, bettered, improved, meliorated to become worse or of less valuethe restaurant's standards for food and service had decayed over the years atrophied, crumbled, declined, degenerated, descended, deteriorated, devolved, ebbed, regressed, retrograded, rotted, sank(or sunk), worsened abated, de-escalated, diminished, downsized, dwindled, receded, wanedbroke down, corrupted, decomposed, degraded, dilapidated, disintegrated, moldered, putrefiedsoured, spoiled(or chiefly British spoilt)lessened, lowered, reduceddebilitated, undermineddrooped, failed, fell, flagged, lagged, languished, ran down, sagged, slipped, wasted (away), weakened, wilted went to pot, went to seed(or ran to seed) ameliorated, improved, meliorated bettered, upgradedenhanced, enriched, fortified, heightened, intensified, strengthenedadvanced, developed, marched, proceeded, progressed to lose bodily strength or vigorhaving reached her 80s, the woman could sense that her body was decaying drooped, emaciated, faded, failed, flagged, lagged, languished, sagged, sank(or sunk), wasted (away), weakened, went, wilted, withered broke down, wore outyieldeddegenerated, deteriorated, ran down, rotted convalesced, rallied, rebounded, recovered, recuperatedgained |