Definition of decay

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Decay (n.) Cause of decay.

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Mortify :: Mortify (v. i.) To be subdued; to decay, as appetites, desires, etc..
Snag :: Snag (n.) A tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken or decayed tooth..
Faint :: Faint (n.) To decay; to disappear; to vanish.
Embalm :: Embalm (v. t.) To preserve from decay or oblivion as if with balm; to perpetuate in remembrance.
Rot :: Rot (v. i.) To undergo a process common to organic substances by which they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through certain chemical changes, giving off usually in some stages of the process more or less offensive odors; to become decomposed by a natural process; to putrefy; to decay..
Refit :: Refit (v. t.) To fit or prepare for use again; to repair; to restore after damage or decay; as, to refit a garment; to refit ships of war..
Dilapidated :: Dilapidated (a.) Decayed; fallen into partial ruin; injured by bad usage or neglect.
Welk :: Welk (v. i.) To wither; to fade; also, to decay; to decline; to wane..
Touchwood :: Touchwood (n.) Wood so decayed as to serve for tinder; spunk, or punk..
Corruptible :: Corruptible (a.) Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay.
Dodder :: Dodder (n.) A plant of the genus Cuscuta. It is a leafless parasitical vine with yellowish threadlike stems. It attaches itself to some other plant, as to flax, goldenrod, etc., and decaying at the root, is nourished by the plant that supports it..
Winter :: Winter (n.) The period of decay, old age, death, or the like..
Carcass :: Carcass (n.) The abandoned and decaying remains of some bulky and once comely thing, as a ship; the skeleton, or the uncovered or unfinished frame, of a thing..
Powder :: Powder (n.) The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust..
Declension :: Declension (n.) A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc..
Ebb :: Ebb (n.) The state or time of passing away; a falling from a better to a worse state; low state or condition; decline; decay.
Ruin :: Ruin (n.) To bring to ruin; to cause to fall to pieces and decay; to make to perish; to bring to destruction; to bring to poverty or bankruptcy; to impair seriously; to damage essentially; to overthrow.
Restore :: Restore (v. t.) To bring back from a state of injury or decay, or from a changed condition; as, to restore a painting, statue, etc..
Druxy :: Druxy (a.) Having decayed spots or streaks of a whitish color; -- said of timber.
Saprophyte :: Saprophyte (n.) Any plant growing on decayed animal or vegetable matter, as most fungi and some flowering plants with no green color, as the Indian pipe..
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