DECAY intransitive verb
1: to decline from a sound or prosperous condition
2: to decrease usually gradually in size, quantity, activity, or force
3: to fall into ruin
4: to decline in health, strength, or vigor
5: to undergo decomposition <decaying fruit>
transitive verb
1: obsolete : to cause to decay : impair <infirmity that decaysthe wise — Shakespeare>
2: to destroy by decomposition Merriam Webster
DECAY noun
1: gradual decline in strength, soundness, or prosperity or in degree of excellence or perfection
2: a wasting or wearing away : ruin
3: obsolete : destruction, death
4: a : rot; specifically : aerobic decomposition of proteins chiefly by bacteriab : the product of decay
5: a decline in health or vigor
6: decrease in quantity, activity, or force: asa : spontaneous decrease in the number of radioactive atoms in radioactive materialb : spontaneous disintegration (as of an atom or a particle) Merriam Webster
1: to decline from a sound or prosperous condition
2: to decrease usually gradually in size, quantity, activity, or force
3: to fall into ruin
4: to decline in health, strength, or vigor
5: to undergo decomposition <decaying fruit>
transitive verb
1: obsolete : to cause to decay : impair <infirmity that decaysthe wise — Shakespeare>
2: to destroy by decomposition Merriam Webster
DECAY noun
1: gradual decline in strength, soundness, or prosperity or in degree of excellence or perfection
2: a wasting or wearing away : ruin
3: obsolete : destruction, death
4: a : rot; specifically : aerobic decomposition of proteins chiefly by bacteriab : the product of decay
5: a decline in health or vigor
6: decrease in quantity, activity, or force: asa : spontaneous decrease in the number of radioactive atoms in radioactive materialb : spontaneous disintegration (as of an atom or a particle) Merriam Webster