Decay is valid Scrabble Word

Is decay a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is decay valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

5 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
11 points in WWF

Definitions for DECAY in dictionary:

VERB:

to decompose
(of organic matter) rot or decompose through the action of bacteria and fungi
cause to rot or decompose
fall into disrepair; deteriorate
decline in quality, power, or vigour
(of a radioactive substance, particle, etc.) undergo change to a different form by emitting radiation
(of a physical quantity) undergo a gradual decrease
become weaker or more corrupt
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.
lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current
fall into decay or ruin
undergo decay or decomposition

NOUN:

the state or process of rotting or decomposition
rotten matter or tissue
structural or physical deterioration
the process of declining in quality, power, or vigour
the change of a radioactive substance, particle, etc. into another by the emission of radiation
gradual decrease in the magnitude of a physical quantity
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.
the process of gradually becoming inferior
a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current
the organic phenomenon of rotting
an inferior state resulting from the process of decaying
the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation
process of decaying

Words related to DECAY

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Words that contain DECAY

decays12 decayed14 decayer13 decayers14 decaying15 decayable17 decayless15 undecayed16

How to use DECAY in a sentence

The Electoral Palace is a superb building, but is not occupied and is falling rapidly to decay.
It is a fine large building, but is falling rapidly to decay, being appropriated to no purpose whatever.
This decay in population causes lodgings to be very cheap.
Everything in the garden had ripened, and much had been thrown out to the pigs and poultry, in anticipation of its decay.
In the next place, my clothes began to decay, and my linen had been gone long before.
A gradual decay of bodily strength, and an utter breaking down of his spirits, brought about the consummation which they all dreaded.
An ancient stone tower, all that now remained of a castle long since fallen into decay, stood upon the extreme summit.
Between the plants there must be a clear space or the leaves will decay through contact.
The old log-cabin where his father and mother had resided was deserted and its dilapidated walls were crumbling with decay.
His extravagances of vision and ambition were no less demoralizing to humanity and civilization, than those that brought decay and ruin to the potentates of old.

Then gradually that spring was followed by the autumn of death and decay.
After a time this tree has fallen into a condition of decay.
The decay of society was praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.
As soon as they are ripe, they should be eaten, or they will rapidly decay.
The decay of the Hittite and Mitannian power meant the revival of the older Aramaean population of the country.
For the securing strength to the plant also, it will be well to pinch off the flower so soon as it shews symptoms of decay.
So pass away our early years, Youth sinks into decay, And age, like autumn soon appears, And quick we pass away.
The rude Pelasgic altar, the sculptured god of Praxiteles, then down through the ages of decay to the ugly painting of the Byzantine monk in the Dark Ages.
They, too, may decay with their natural protecting principles.
The cathedral of Bristol is one of the most interesting relics of monastic splendour which have been spared from the wrecks of desolation and decay.
Though the growth of philosophy and decay of superstition may be good for a nation, the process is certainly conducive to the destruction of its myth and much of its poetry.
It probably existed there since the time of Asoka and underwent the same phases of decay and corruption as in Bengal.
We knew that the wooden walls would not do, because they would soon decay.
From its effects his mind began to decay, and finally perished, leaving him, long before his death, a melancholy imbecile.

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