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decay
Synonyms and Antonyms of decay
- middle-aged people who fervently hope that daily exercise will arrest the physical decay that usually accompanies advancing age
- the cycle by which the decay of dead plants on the forest floor provides soil and nutrients for the next generation of plants
decay
Synonyms and Antonyms of decay
- the logs decayed on the rain forest floor
- the atom of plutonium decayed in the test chamber
sour, turn, turn off [British]
contaminate, defile, pollute, taint
crumble, decline, degenerate, descend, deteriorate, dilapidate, sink, wither
fall apart, go to seed (or run to seed)
- the restaurant's standards for food and service had decayed over the years
atrophy, crumble, decline, degenerate, descend, deteriorate, devolve, ebb, regress, retrograde, rot, sink, worsen
go to pot, go to seed (or run to seed)
- having reached her 80s, the woman could sense that her body was decaying
Synonym Discussion of decay
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- a decaying mansion
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- the strong odor of decomposing vegetation
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- fruit was left to rot in warehouses
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- corpses putrefying on the battlefield
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- keep the ham from spoiling
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