The word "decaying" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to something that is gradually becoming weaker, declining, or deteriorating, or to describe something that is changing in a negative way. Example sentence: The once prosperous city was now decaying rapidly due to years of disrepair.
Only by leaving behind the decaying corpse of the old Europe can we keep the European legacy of égaliberté alive.
The decision to scrap the Manchester mega-casino, accompanied by the promise to find better ways of regenerating our decaying inner cities, was a clear rejection of the market economy as the solution to all the problems of growth and renewal.
In Tuesday's local elections voters were asked if they wanted to commit up to $217m in bonds to turn the decaying structure into a convention and exhibition centre with an external plaza, called the New Dome Experience.
Yet, as authorities in Sicily buckle under the weight of the influx of migrants, children are being left in overcrowded and decaying emergency shelters for months, with little protection.
But according to Sinead Walsh, the Irish chargé d'affaires in Freetown who oversees the country programme, creating a structure for reporting violence isn't enough in a republic where the judicial system had been decaying for decades even before the civil war.
While pigs are a fairly decent approximation of humans in such contexts, the study failed to detect two compounds, cadaverine and putrescine, usually found in decaying human cadavers.
Open Mon-Tues, Thur 9am-2pm, Fri 9am-6pm, Sat-Sun 3pm-6pm In a large exhibition space in a charmingly decaying former bank building, Mediamatic explores the influence of new technologies and media on culture and society through intriguing exhibitions, workshops, lectures and film screenings.
I believe that I'm middle-aged, and decaying, so nobody should judge me by the landslide of hairy mush that I store inside my jumper.
This is a sport that was more or less cut loose by successive governments in the 1980s, left to fester in its decaying corrugated infrastructure, abandoned to its disasters.
The makeshift shrine to Sadiq Adebiyi is slowly decaying just yards down the road from the beautiful wall-mounted mosaic that commemorates Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian electrician who was killed in the brutal efficiency of a chain of police errors in the wake of the failed 21 July bombings in 2005.
Many of his works were destroyed, thrown away, burned, faded in sunlight on parlour walls, or left decaying in damp museum stores.
