Decays is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DECAYS 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 DECAYS

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How to use DECAYS in a sentence

• Contrary to what might be expected, the dense wood of the tree decays, and suffers from the ravages of insects, more swiftly than the bark.
• Sentiment decays, the vision fades, faith in principles departs, the moment that appetite rules.
• The commerce of Genoa is transferred to Leghorn, which increases in prosperity as the former decays.
• A few creep into their beds of dust under the burden of old age and the gradual decays of nature.
• In some soils, however, the bones rot almost as soon as the flesh decays from them.
• Population decays under conditions that cannot be charged to the presence or absence of misery, in the common sense of the word.
• No remedy has been discovered and all affected trees should be cut down and the wood utilized before it decays and becomes worthless.
• The nitrogen exists largely in the humus of the soil and it is only as the humus decays that the nitrogen is made available.
• The phosphoric acid in the floats is insoluble and becomes available only as the phosphate decays.
• As the organic matter decays it adds available plant food to the soil, particularly nitrogen.
• As it decays, it produces carbonic acid and other acids which are able to dissolve mineral plant food not soluble in pure water and thus render it available to plants.
• It was to inquire what decays, conversions, and park enclosures had been made since 1489, but the result even of this attempt was small.
• That is what Saint Paul meant when he said that the outer man decays, but the inner man is renewed.
• Why seek further the solution of this phenomenon? Every thing in nature decays.
• No wonder skepticism flourishes and genuine faith decays.
• These phenomena are explained if we suppose that the X-product is slowly produced in the substance of the parent, and decays at a constant rate.
• The emanation comes away, and the activity of the deposit which it leaves behind decays rapidly to a small fraction of its initial value.
• The filth that is thrown into the street lies there and decays until the kindly heavens pour down a drenching shower and wash it away.
• There never comes a time, even amidst the decays of age, when it is fit to lay aside the eagerness of acquisition, or the cheerfulness of endeavor.
• Yet as memory may be assisted by method, and the decays of knowledge repaired by stated times of recollection, so the power of forgetting is capable of improvement.
• I esteem it a very choice blessing that, as the outer man decays, the heart seems enlarged in charity, and more and more drawn towards those I love.
• Youth, like a thin anemone, displays His silken leaf, and in a morn decays.
• If we go into a tropical forest we find that the woody fibre of dead trees almost invariably decays faster than the bark.
• Benfield himself, in regard to the Nabob, of the infirmities natural to his advanced age, joined to the decays of his constitution.
• The great evils and great characteristics of the world are that everything in it decays and dies and that existence depends on desire.
• In time the trunk of the tree decays and disappears, and temples are made of the thick branches.

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