Definizione monolingua

decay

decay (third-person singular simple present decays, present participle decaying, simple past and past participle decayed)

1. To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.
2. To rot, to go bad.
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decay (uncountable)

1. The process or result of being gradually decomposed.
   • 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter X

     Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable. It struck me as singularly odd, that among the universal decay, this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousand years. Is reminded me of a sepia painting I had once seen done from the ink of a fossil Belemnite that must have perished and become fossilized millions of years ago. I was about to throw this camphor on one side, and then remembering that it was inflammable and burnt with a good bright flame, I put it into my pocket.

2. A deterioration of condition.

Definizione dizionario decay

	marcire
	To become overridden with bacteria and other infectious agents, hereby becoming unfit for consumption (referring to food).

abbassamento

avversita

avvilimento

carie

decadenza

decadere

decadimento

decomporre

decomporsi

decomposizione

degrado

deperire

disfacimento

imputridire

intristire

putrefare

putrefazione

rovina

smorzamento

Altri significati:

process or result of being gradually decomposed

(to) decay

dilapidation (ruin)

rot

deteriorate

To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.

To rot, to go bad.

A deterioration of condition.

deterioration of condition

decay (physics)

The process or result of being gradually decomposed.