DECAY
\dɪkˈe͡ɪ], \dɪkˈeɪ], \d_ɪ_k_ˈeɪ]\
Definitions of DECAY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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fall into decay or ruin; "The unoccupied house started to decay"
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the organic phenomenon of rotting
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the process of gradually becoming inferior
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the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation
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an inferior state resulting from the process of decaying; "the corpse was in an advanced state of decay"; "the house had fallen into a serious state of decay and disrepair"
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undergo decay or decomposition; "The body started to decay and needed to be cremated"
By Princeton University
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fall into decay or ruin; "The unoccupied house started to decay"
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the organic phenomenon of rotting
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the process of gradually becoming inferior
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the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation
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an inferior state resulting from the process of decaying; "the corpse was in an advanced state of decay"; "the house had fallen into a serious state of decay and disrepair"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay; hopes decay.
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Gradual failure of health, strength, soundness, prosperity, or of any species of excellence or perfection; tendency toward dissolution or extinction; corruption; rottenness; decline; deterioration; as, the decay of the body; the decay of virtue; the decay of the Roman empire; a castle in decay.
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Cause of decay.
By Oddity Software
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To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay; hopes decay.
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Gradual failure of health, strength, soundness, prosperity, or of any species of excellence or perfection; tendency toward dissolution or extinction; corruption; rottenness; decline; deterioration; as, the decay of the body; the decay of virtue; the decay of the Roman empire; a castle in decay.
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Cause of decay.
By Noah Webster.
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To rot; decline or fail.
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Decline; gradual failure in mind or body; ruin; rottenness; corruption.
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Decaying.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Decaying.
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To become less perfect; to fail; to decline; to waste away.
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A gradual failure; decline of fortune; corruption.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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1. The destruction of an organic substance by slow combustion, or gradual oxidation. 2. Putrefaction. 3. To deteriorate, to undergo slow combustion or putrefaction.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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To fall away from a state of health or excellence: to waste away.
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A falling into a worse or less perfect state: a passing away.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To affect or be affected by decay; impair; deteriorate; decline.
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A gradual decline; decomposition; corruption; rottenness.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A decline of the normal condition of a substance or of the whole or a part of an organism, especially putrefactive decomposition; also the condition of having undergone such a decline; figuratively, the gradual failure of health and strength incident to old age.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. Gradual failure of health, strength, soundness, prosperity, or any kind of excellence or perfection;—decline; deterioration; rottenness.
By Thomas Sheridan
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HEREDITAMENTS
- Tilings capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal,real, personal, mixed, and including not only lands everything thereon, but alsolieir-looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir togetherwith (he land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nell is v. Munson, 108 N. Y. 453, 15 E.730; Owens Lewis, 40 Ind. 508, Am. Rep. 205; Whitlock Greacen. 4S J. Eq.350. 21 Atl. 944; Mitchell Warner, 5 Conn. 407; New York Mabie, 13 150, 04Am. Dec. 53S. Estates. Anything capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, mixed and including not only lands everything thereon, but also heir looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir, together with land. Co. Litt. 5 b; 1 Tho. 219; 2 Bl. Com. 17. this term such things are denoted, as subject-matter inheritance, inheritance itself; cannot therefore, its own intrinsic force, enlarge an estate, prima facie a life into fee. B. & P. 251; 8 T. R. 503; 219, note Hereditaments are divided into corporeal and incorporeal. confined to lands. (q. v.) Vide Incorporeal hereditaments, Shep. To. 91; Cruise's Dig. tit. 1, s. 1; Wood's Inst.221; 3 Kent, Com. 321; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 1 Chit. Pr. 203-229; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1595, et seq.