Decay
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.
To cause to decay; to impair.
To destroy.
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.
Destruction; death.
Cause of decay.
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Decay Quotations
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
Thomas Jefferson
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
Maurice Chevalier
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
Niccolo Machiavelli
I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
Bob Dylan
I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
Henry Miller
Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
Ambrose Bierce
Fascism is capitalism in decay.
Vladimir Lenin
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
George Orwell
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
Flannery O'Connor
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Decay Translations
decay in Danish is forfald
decay in Dutch is verval
decay in Latin is morior, caries
decay in Spanish is decaimiento
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