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decayingnoun a gradual sinking and wasting away of mind or bodythe decaying of the bone mass that is so regrettably common in elderly women debilitation, decay, declension, decline, degeneration, descent, deterioration, ebbing, enfeeblement, weakening atrophyexhaustiondrooping, flagging, limpingregression, relapse, setback comeback, improvement, rally, recovery, recuperation, rehabilitation, revitalization, snapback invigoration, strengtheningprogressrejuvenation, rejuvenescence to go through decompositionthe logs decayed on the rain forest floor the atom of plutonium decayed in the test chamber breaking down, corrupting, decomposing, disintegrating, festering, fouling, moldering, molding, perishing(chiefly British), putrefying, rotting, spoiling souring, turning, turning off(British)contaminating, defiling, polluting, taintingaddling, curdling, fermentingmortifyingrustingcrumbling, declining, degenerating, descending, deteriorating, dilapidating, sinking, withering falling apart, going to seed(or running to seed) aging(or ageing), developing, growing, maturing, ripeningrefreshing, renewing, restoringcleansing, purifyingassembling, composing, integratingameliorating, bettering, improving, meliorating to become worse or of less valuethe restaurant's standards for food and service had decayed over the years atrophying, crumbling, declining, degenerating, descending, deteriorating, devolving, ebbing, regressing, retrograding, rotting, sinking, worsening abating, de-escalating, diminishing, downsizing, dwindling, receding, waningbreaking down, corrupting, decomposing, degrading, dilapidating, disintegrating, moldering, putrefyingsouring, spoilinglessening, lowering, reducingdebilitating, underminingdrooping, failing, falling, flagging, lagging, languishing, running down, sagging, slipping, wasting (away), weakening, wilting going to pot, going to seed(or running to seed) ameliorating, improving, meliorating bettering, upgradingenhancing, enriching, fortifying, heightening, intensifying, strengtheningadvancing, developing, marching, proceeding, progressing to lose bodily strength or vigorhaving reached her 80s, the woman could sense that her body was decaying drooping, emaciating, fading, failing, flagging, going, lagging, languishing, sagging, sinking, wasting (away), weakening, wilting, withering breaking down, wearing outyieldingdegenerating, deteriorating, rotting, running down convalescing, rallying, rebounding, recovering, recuperatinggaining |