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Definition of decaying : of Decay

Synonyms:

dy, ratty, breaking down, rundown, dingy, tattered, all the worse for wear, wasting away, eroding, better, faded, bedraggled, decrepit, dilapidated, sleazy, shabby, broken-down, rotten, threadbare, tatty, wearing away, breaking up, tacky, dying, falling to pieces, falling, shoddy, down-at-heel, scruffy, tumbling down, rusting, mangy, oxidizing, scrubby

breaking, rupturing, disintegrating, shattering, turning, anatomizing, crumbling, mortifying, rotting, spoiling, fracturing, dissecting, putrefying, decomposing, degenerating, dissolving

downgrading, worsening, atrophying, deteriorating, waning, lapsing, relapsing, fading, slipping, getting worse, slumping, dilapidating, mouldering, ebbing, collapsing, retrogressing, regressing, sinking, sliding, tergiversating, reverting, falling apart, wilting, declining, going downhill, withering

Usage examples:

• What were they all- Momola, her child, and her persecutors- but a sickly growth of the decaying social order? - "The Valley of Decision", Edith Wharton.
• The site of the village, from a sanitary point of view, was a very bad one, not only because it was low and confined, but because in the valley immediately back of it there were a number of stagnant, foul- smelling ponds and pools, half overgrown with rank tropical vegetation, and so full of decaying organic matter that when I passed them for the first time on my way to the front I instinctively held my breath as much as possible because the very air from them seemed poisonous. - "Campaigning in Cuba", George Kennan.
• These butterflies may be seen rather frequently from midsummer on, visiting various flowers and sipping the juices from decaying fruits beneath the trees. - "Butterflies Worth Knowing", Clarence M. Weed.