Decaying is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DECAYING in dictionary:

VERB:
• DECAY, 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
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

Words related to DECAYING

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How to use DECAYING in a sentence

• It seemed to take a pleasure in the terrible words it loosed to stray eternally through the decaying forest.
• Where the plaster had not fallen off, their white fronts were dazzling, but they were dirty and ruinous and the narrow street was strewn with decaying rubbish.
• Lastly, the centre of the structure was occupied by a deep pit, the hideous receptacle of the decaying remains of the criminals.
• Two or three old chairs piled in one corner, a rusty stove or so, a heap of tattered and decaying clothing, were all that met my gaze.
• Chwastowski examined me yesterday, and said I had the nerves of a decaying race, but had inherited a fair supply of muscular strength.
• In England and America one has, further, the feeling that it is the growing, and not the decaying, forces of society which create the most disquieting problems.
• Camping places were almost unbearable on account of the dead and decaying cattle.
• He remarked that he was perspiring very freely! Looking back it is easy to see that we were terribly incautious in our treatment of this decaying ice.
• As soon as their eyes became accustomed to the dim light, the party saw many large birds, some in the trees, some in the decaying underbrush, and others on the ground.
• My curiosity was now excited by seeing a very aged negro standing and gazing steadily on a small decaying tomb.
• I, in my modern costume, sat down between two pairs of candles to the piano in the decaying drawing-room, which like a spinster strove to conceal its age.
• It was highly amusing to observe the peculiarity which the consciousness of superior knowledge impressed upon the conversation and personal appearance of this decaying race.
• My boat was moored in the one part of the decaying harbor in which deep water still lay at the foot of the quay.
• But in those days people were contented with very little, and though Edward I enforced the general improvement of roads in 1285, in the fourteenth century they were decaying.
• The city, however, is decaying daily, and does not gain in population.
• Her ear wakes no more at the well-known voice of her children, and the soothing accents of tender affection die away unheard upon her decaying senses.
• If the following anecdote be true, there can be little doubt that the prophet assisted to restore decaying nature by the use of amulets or charms.
• Ten years more of the hard times and Gobley, with all its peers, will be deserted and decaying.
• Everywhere among the yellow leaves were perched heaps of decaying garments and bones.
• Half the roof was gone and pieces of decaying seal-hide and a ragged red shawl embedded in the dirt floor hinted of the visits of long-ago Indian otter-hunters.
• The Pope, whose power was fast decaying in England, at length submitted.
• Because the heat of the heart decaying causeth their beauty to decay also.
• How strange it seems! but yet how fitting that this one word alone should be preserved by loving Nature from the decaying touch of Time.
• The trees have been cut down long ago from the soil, but these fangs remain in the earth without decaying for an incredible space of time.
• Let no man hereafter talk of the decaying energies of Nature.
• In his opinion, it was rubbish and the luxury of a decaying age.

Similar words containing CAY without suffix ing and without prefix de

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