What does the word decay mean?
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To affect or be affected by decay; impair; deteriorate; decline.
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A gradual decline; decomposition; corruption; rottenness.
Part of speech: verb transitive, verb intransitive
Part of speech: noun
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Usage examples for decay
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Other things besides peat are formed when plants decay under water. – Lessons on Soil by E. J. Russell
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The Dutch decay there exceedingly, it being believed that their people will revolt from them there, and they forced to give over their trade. – Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright by Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke
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I enjoy my own security and tranquillity, together with better health than I had reason to expect at my age, and with my constitution: however, I feel a gradual decay, though a gentle one; and I think that I shall not tumble, but slide gently to the bottom of the hill of life. – Letters to His Son, 1759-1765 by The Earl of Chesterfield