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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121. The resultant flow relieves the tension and produces the observed stress decay.
122. Urine was recommended as a mouthwash because its acidity was thought to prevent tooth decay!
123. They provide you with fibre and healthy nutrients in place of the usual surplus calories, tooth decay and guilt.
124. This slow decay rate results in a poor age estimate.
125. The smell of decay will attract mammals and insects that consider it lunch.
126. The thick slash lying everywhere had been packed down, and decay had made it brittle.
127. In time, the house might decay, the town disappear, and the whole site become a field growing crops.
128. We found no association between extent of active dental decay and risk of coronary heart disease.
129. This insoluble predicament was the source of the decay, corruption and mounting tension evident within the upper echelons of the regime.
130. And it's the bodily imperfections and decay which lead us to desire a permanence of the human essence.
131. The neutrino is produced in the beta decay of nuclei, when a neutron converts into a proton, and an electron.
132. In some parts of the country fluoride is added to the water to help prevent tooth decay.
133. The decay constant F includes any process that destroys c1, c2 or their correlation.
134. Mere preservation, however, can lead eventually to decay and thus defeats its object.
135. From the time of Laurence little work was carried out on the Palace and it was again allowed to fall into decay.
136. The decay of Britain's roads has been reflected in a sharp increase in central government's spending on road maintenance.
137. Some of the apples lying on the ground had already begun to decay.
138. The advice was not restricted to the prevention of tooth decay.
139. The simplest radioactive methods are based on decay of a radioactive isotope into a stable one.
140. It frightens me how a child can be made of flesh and blood but decay to wood.
141. However as the number of jobs in Vickers decreased the area underwent serious urban decay.
142. One becquerel is equal to one radioactive decay per second.
143. Decline and decay in one location will soon impact adjacent areas.
144. The rows of hazel coppice emphasised the atmosphere of decay.
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145. By the time I first went to Moscow in 1987 the imperial decay had become all too apparent.
146. Helium is also made by radioactive decay of uranium and thorium, both of which decay by emission of alpha particles.
147. Window frames carry a thirty year guarantee against rot or decay.
148. As soon as the sample is removed from the vicinity of the main mass, its decay rate drops.
149. All this was looked after, preserved in its current state of decay.
150. The ratios change over time as potassium undergoes radioactive decay and emits argon gas.
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