Synonyms:
decay
Meaning: the process of gradually becoming inferior
Synonyms:
decay, decline
Meaning: a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current
Synonyms:
decay, decomposition
Meaning: the organic phenomenon of rotting
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
disintegrate, decay, decompose
Meaning: lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current; "the particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process"
Synonyms:
decay, crumble, dilapidate
Meaning: fall into decay or ruin; "The unoccupied house started to decay"
Usage examples
I am not in love with decay.
His thin face was hardly changed at all, and strange to say there was no smell of decay from the corpse.
When thy impurities are blown away, and thou art free from guilt, thou wilt not enter again into birth and decay.
In the universal decay this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousands of centuries.
It seems to be a fundamental law of all life and growth, as well as of all decay, that there shall be a constant change.
Whether the change was caused by something better than physical decay, who knows save him who can use even decay for redemption?
Thus the atmosphere became a deadly poison to the next poor victim who was left to breathe the noxious effluvia of corruption and decay.
Before this fire of sense decay, This smoke of thought blow clean away, And leave with ancient night alone The stedfast and enduring bone.
'As far as I can gather,' he said, coughing above the spirit, 'you call it decay of the optic nerve, or something, and therefore hopeless.
In America, from a like cause, the government of the Union has gradually dwindled into a state of decay, approaching nearly to annihilation.