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n.
A causer of decay.
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.
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.
a.
Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten meat.
n.
That which promotes injury, decay, or destruction.
n.
One of a tribe of beetles which feed upon decaying animal and vegetable substances; a carrion beetle.
n.
One who prates in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed.
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.
Cause of decay.
n.
A brown amorphous substance found in decaying vegetation. Cf. Humin.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Decay
v. i. & t.
To talk in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle.
a.
Fallen, as to physical or social condition; affected with decay; rotten; as, decayed vegetation or vegetables; a decayed fortune or gentleman.
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.
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.
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.
a.
Feeding or growing upon decaying animal or vegetable matter; pertaining to a saprophyte or the saprophytes.
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