decayed

Speech parts

1. decayed - Adjective

2. decayed - Verb

4. decayed - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Decay

Fallen, as to physical or social condition; affected with decay; rotten; as, decayed vegetation or vegetables; a decayed fortune or gentleman.

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Examples

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. John Stuart Mill

My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions. James Joyce

It is a known fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially of the decayed part of the aristocracy. Vilfredo Pareto

If one has left this entire system to itself for an hour, one would say that the cat still lives if meanwhile no atom has decayed. The psi-function of the entire system would express this by having in it the living and dead cat (pardon the expression) mixed or smeared out in equal parts. Erwin Schrödinger

I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed. John Bachman

In every pomegranate a decayed pip is to be found. Latin Proverb

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