Synonym: crumble, disintegrate, rot, spoil. Similar words: decayed, decant, decade, decadent, decadence, decaffeinated, recall, because. Meaning: [dɪ'keɪ] n. 1. the process of gradually becoming inferior 2. a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current 3. the organic phenomenon of rotting 4. an inferior state resulting from the process of decaying 5. the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation. v. 1. lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current 2. fall into decay or ruin 3. undergo decay or decomposition.
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91. The second hazard is that old bugaboo, moisture, encouraging mildew growth and eventual decay.
92. For example, if groundwater solutions had dissolved some of the lead produced by uranium decay, the age would be underestimated.
93. Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay. Percy Bysshe Shelley
94. Imagine what will happen to worker productivity and health-care costs if they all buy into the prevailing images of decline and decay.
95. D., there began to appear on the Roman horizon disturbing signs of cultural decline and moral decay.
96. There are two main kinds of theory of why animals forget: the decay theory and the interference theory.
97. As the process of decay continues, amines of lower and lower molecular mass are produced.
98. Spontaneous decay of radioactive atoms in rocks gives absolute ages that date the geologic periods and the origin of the Earth.
99. The art of the Minoan seal cutters, like other aspects of the culture, was falling gradually into decay.
100. In respect of the dead the idea was to prevent decay of the body.
101. He goes away, rejecting the power he has assumed, hoping the creation will fall back into decay.
102. The largest accessible source of helium-3 on Earth is from the decay of tritium in hydrogen bombs.
103. If the field continues to decay at its present rate, it will reach its nadir in some 1, 200 years.
104. Water fluoridation costing £260,000 is to restart to protect against dental decay in the region.
105. Amid this moral decay, religious, ethnic and caste crusades have a growing appeal.
106. Other reactions have concentrated on the issue of the interplay between inner-city decay and racial disadvantage in contemporary Britain.
107. Tiny organisms that live in the soil assist the process of decay.
108. Generally speaking, instability thresholds are lower than in the quasi-Lorenz system[Sentencedict.com], and the restrictions on decay rates less severe.
109. A mixture of bad workmanship, bad materials and bad design has left an extraordinary legacy of decay.
110. The organic matter in soil consists of plant and animal debris or waste in varying stages of decay.
111. Other forms of fungal decay of timber in buildings are relatively unimportant because they are not able to spread to sound wood.
112. The University of Florida researcher has come up with a brilliantly simple way to tackle tooth decay.
113. Rot in Timber Timber decay which is not owed to insect action is normally the result of fungal attack.
114. But half the sugar in the drink came from the milk and was not thought to cause tooth decay.
114. Sentencedict.com is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.
115. Some rocks can also be dated by the microscopic tracks of decay particles ejected from the radioactive nucleus.
116. According to Newtonian mechanics the orbital decay for an isolated binary consisting of compact stars is expected to be immeasurably small.
117. Food symbolises many things in this film, but the recurring image is of a cycle of fleshly decay fuelled by appetite.
118. Not only was the body found perfectly intact, but the robes in which it had been buried had suffered no decay.
119. Because homosexuals do not control society, they are more victims than agents of its decay.
120. Tourists will visit scores of new museums and monuments in neighborhoods now plagued by crime and decay.
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