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Decay
DECA'Y, v.i. [Fr. dechoir, from L. de and cado, to fall, or decedo.]
1. To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to a less perfect state, or towards destruction; to fail; to decline; to be gradually impaired. Our bodies decay in old age; a tree decays; buildings decay; fortunes decay.
2. To become weaker; to fail; as, our strength decays, or hopes decay.
DECA'Y, v.t. To cause to fail; to impair; to bring to a worse state.
Infirmity, that decays the wise, doth ever make better the fool.
DECA'Y, n.
1. Gradual failure of health, strength, soundness, prosperity, or any species of excellence or perfection; decline to a worse or less perfect state; tendency towards dissolution or extinction; a state of depravation or diminution. Old men feel the decay of the body. We perceive the decay of the faculties in age. We lament the decay of virtue and patriotism in the state. The northern nations invaded the Roman Empire, when in a state of decay.
2. Declension from prosperity; decline of fortune.
If thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay. Lev 25.
3. Cause of decay.
He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers, is the decay of the whole age.
decay appears in definitions for these words:
Amaranthus Amaurosis Ancient Canker Carcass Clay Consenescence Consenescency Conservable Conservant Conservation Conservatory Conserve Consumption Corruptible Corruptless Crumble Crumbling Dead Decadence Decay Decayedness Decayer Decaying Declination Decline Declining Decrease Decrepit Decrepitness Degeneracy Degenerate Degenerateness Degeneration Die Dilapidate Dilapidation Dodder Dote Downfall Ebb Ebbing Emaciate Embalm Embalming Emperished Everyoung Fade Faded Fading Fadingness Fail Failing Failure Faint Fenowed Frail Full Harridan Haunt Impatient Imperfection Imperishable Improvement Inception Incorruptibility Incorruptible Incorruptibleness Incorruptive Incorruptness Indefectibility Indefectible Inhabitable Insensible Instauration Labefaction Laconism Last Late Marcescent Marcessible Molder Muddy Of Old Passage Perceptibly Perish Perishable Perishableness Piety Preservation Preservative Preserve Preserved Preserving Process Quailing Ravage Refit Refitting Relic Renew Renovate Renovation Repair Repairer Reparation Retrieve Rot Rotten Rottenness Ruin Ruinous Scrupulous Senescence Shrivel Sink Sound Sphacelate Sphacelus Spoil Spoiling Stale Stay Strain Subject Suffruticous Sullen Timber Toft Touch-wood Trash Undecayed Undecaying Undershrub Unperishable Unwasting Waste Wear Welk Wind Wither Wrinkle
Amaranthus Amaurosis Ancient Canker Carcass Clay Consenescence Consenescency Conservable Conservant Conservation Conservatory Conserve Consumption Corruptible Corruptless Crumble Crumbling Dead Decadence Decay Decayedness Decayer Decaying Declination Decline Declining Decrease Decrepit Decrepitness Degeneracy Degenerate Degenerateness Degeneration Die Dilapidate Dilapidation Dodder Dote Downfall Ebb Ebbing Emaciate Embalm Embalming Emperished Everyoung Fade Faded Fading Fadingness Fail Failing Failure Faint Fenowed Frail Full Harridan Haunt Impatient Imperfection Imperishable Improvement Inception Incorruptibility Incorruptible Incorruptibleness Incorruptive Incorruptness Indefectibility Indefectible Inhabitable Insensible Instauration Labefaction Laconism Last Late Marcescent Marcessible Molder Muddy Of Old Passage Perceptibly Perish Perishable Perishableness Piety Preservation Preservative Preserve Preserved Preserving Process Quailing Ravage Refit Refitting Relic Renew Renovate Renovation Repair Repairer Reparation Retrieve Rot Rotten Rottenness Ruin Ruinous Scrupulous Senescence Shrivel Sink Sound Sphacelate Sphacelus Spoil Spoiling Stale Stay Strain Subject Suffruticous Sullen Timber Toft Touch-wood Trash Undecayed Undecaying Undershrub Unperishable Unwasting Waste Wear Welk Wind Wither Wrinkle
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