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n.
That which is fallen down and become worthless from injury or decay; as, his mind is a ruin; especially, in the plural, the remains of a destroyed, dilapidated, or desolate house, fortress, city, or the like.
n.
One who prates in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed.
a.
Feeding or growing upon decaying animal or vegetable matter; pertaining to a saprophyte or the saprophytes.
n.
Cause of decay.
a.
Fallen, as to physical or social condition; affected with decay; rotten; as, decayed vegetation or vegetables; a decayed fortune or gentleman.
n.
That which promotes injury, decay, or destruction.
n.
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.
v. i.
To fall to ruins; to go to ruin; to become decayed or dilapidated; to perish.
v. i.
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.
n.
A brown amorphous substance found in decaying vegetation. Cf. Humin.
v. i. & t.
To talk in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle.
n.
One of a tribe of beetles which feed upon decaying animal and vegetable substances; a carrion beetle.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Decay
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.
n.
A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi. See Bitter rot, Black rot, etc., below.
imp. & p. p.
of Decay
v. t.
To cause to decay; to impair.
a.
Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten meat.
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.
n.
A causer of decay.
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