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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.
Feeding or growing upon decaying animal or vegetable matter; pertaining to a saprophyte or the saprophytes.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Decay
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.
n.
Cause of decay.
v. t.
To cause to decay; to impair.
n.
That which promotes injury, decay, or destruction.
n.
A brown amorphous substance found in decaying vegetation. Cf. Humin.
n.
A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi. See Bitter rot, Black rot, etc., below.
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.
v. i. & t.
To talk in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle.
a.
Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten meat.
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.
v. i.
To fall to ruins; to go to ruin; to become decayed or dilapidated; to perish.
n.
One of a tribe of beetles which feed upon decaying animal and vegetable substances; a carrion beetle.
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.
imp. & p. p.
of Decay
a.
Fallen, as to physical or social condition; affected with decay; rotten; as, decayed vegetation or vegetables; a decayed fortune or gentleman.
n.
A causer of decay.
n.
One who prates in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed.
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