decaying in English

verb

1

(of organic matter) rot or decompose through the action of bacteria and fungi.

a decayed cabbage leaf

synonyms: decomposing, decomposed, rotting, rotten, putrescent, putrid, bad, off, perished, moldy, festering, fetid, rancid, rank, maggoty, wormy, decompose, rot, putrefy, go bad, go off, spoil, fester, perish, deteriorate, degrade, break down, molder, shrivel, wither, photodegrade

adjective

decomposing, decomposed, rotting, rotten, putrescent, putrid, bad, off, perished, moldy, festering, fetid, rancid, rank, maggoty, wormy
declining, degenerating, dying, crumbling, disintegrating, derelict, run-down, tumbledown, ramshackle, shabby, decrepit, in decline, in ruins, on the way out

verb

decompose, deteriorate, dilapidate
decompose, rot, putrefy, go bad, go off, spoil, fester, perish, deteriorate, degrade, break down, molder, shrivel, wither, photodegrade
deteriorate, degenerate, decline, go downhill, slump, slide, go to rack and ruin, go to seed, disintegrate, fall to pieces, fall into disrepair, fail, collapse, go to pot, go to the dogs, go into/down the toilet
dilapidate, crumble
decompose, disintegrate

Use "decaying" in a sentence

1. Damascus Becomes a Decaying Ruin

2. Well, my book is about decaying values.

3. The ground was scattered with decaying leaves.

4. Heaps of decaying refuse littered every street.

5. Slugs feed on decaying plant and animal material.

6. • Lianas writhed towards the light from Bilious decaying depths

7. They are blotchy blood red. They smell like decaying flesh.

8. 9 Humus is dead, decaying organic matter. NOT inorganic fertilizer.

9. 1 Also the humus from decaying plants is washed down.

10. A sickly smell of decaying fish came from the dirty river.

11. Gooey and black, the muck is full of decaying plant material.

12. 11 They are blotchy blood red. They smell like decaying flesh.

13. The detected decaying pulse-shaped alternating current is transformed into decaying direct current by an integrator circuit and evaluated by a microcontroller in an analog/digital converter channel.

14. Another word for Crumbling: disintegrating, collapsing, deteriorating, decaying, eroding Collins English Thesaurus

15. The temple's grand white arches rose conspicuously over the dirty decaying city.

16. The role of the extended family has been decaying for some time.

17. Grasslands accumulate a layer of dead and decaying prairie plants or ‘litter’.

18. Decaying school buildings provide a ready image for the nation in microcosm.

19. The Bristletail's diet includes leaf litter, rotting vegetation, and other decaying organic matter

20. In the 19th century a revetment was added to strengthen the decaying wall.

21. Capable of decaying through the action of living organisms: Biodegradable paper; Biodegradable detergent.

22. The isotope U-235 is unstable, decaying by a process called spontaneous fission.Sentencedict

23. " Kind keepers of my weak decaying age, " " Let dying Mortimer here rest himself. "

24. When they eventually start decaying, they use up oxygen dissolved in the water.

25. Congress has tried dozens of approaches to revitalize decaying urban and rural areas.

26. 25 This stood overgrown and decaying in the grounds of a convent school.

27. The isotope U-235 is unstable, decaying by a process called spontaneous fission.

28. Amphipods feed on nuisance hair algae, dead decaying algae, leftover food and fish waste.

29. The activity of a radioactive substance is the number of nuclei decaying per second.

30. They bought a decaying 16th-century manor house and restored it to its original splendour.

31. Many Cockroaches live in warm, tropical areas and feed on decaying wood and leaves

32. I wanted a simple way to represent a living body inhabiting these decaying, derelict spaces.

33. Synonyms for Carious include rotten, decomposed, putrid, decayed, decaying, decomposing, festering, rank, rotting and foetid

34. The odour of decaying corpses could be smelled up to 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) away.

35. Curiously, what was in those eyes, along with decaying hope, was an inexplicable determination to live.

36. On the other, is the rural enclave with archaic traditional technological knowledge which is fast decaying.

37. Bowfin tends to just hang around the bottom as they are scavenging for the dead decaying matter

38. As well as decaying naturally to a stable lead isotope, U occasionally also divides in half.

39. But does it exist anywhere outside coiled up rolls of decaying celluloid of pre-war films?

40. The damp, decaying vegetation in these bogs made the soil unusually acidic, discouraging the growth of most plants.

41. Graham and Slater walked down the narrow alley formed by the seedy, decaying stonework and the painted wood.

42. The term Autointoxication means the body is being poisoned by a cesspool of decaying material in the colon

43. Arthropods ingest decaying plant material to eat the bacteria and fungi on the surface of the organic material

44. 7 On the other,(www.Sentencedict.com) is the rural enclave with archaic traditional technological knowledge which is fast decaying.

45. Sometimes even "foul smelling" is an understatement, and two of the Amines produced in decaying …

46. Carl Casper is an acclaimed Chef with a family life that seems as decaying as his artistic freedom

47. To the decaying line of older castles and fortified manor houses he added one new prestige building, Camber Castle.

48. It proposed an ambitious programme of investment and the designation of Cabinet colleagues as ministers for various decaying areas.

49. The problems at Hope Farm began in 19 when subsidies from the decaying Soviet government began to dry up.

50. Many layers of decaying organic matter built up in Pennsylvania during the Cretaceous, and now it is all coal.