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the decaying
verb
To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality. To undergo bit rot, that is, gradual degradation. To undergo software rot, that is, to fail to be updated in a changing environment, so as to eventually become legacy or obsolete. To undergo prolonged reduction in altitude (above the orbited body).
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It's the decaying fruit of bad economic policy.
In Bloomington, she promised to bring nothing less than economic revolution to the decaying Rust Belt.
Sister insisted that they look at the decaying body each day.
Commagene broke free from the decaying Seleucid Empire about 162 bc.
There are two Venices because the city is the decaying relic of a once-great empire.
A bit dead, but sweet, like the decaying wood of a ship.
His art has proved to be the decaying church's other savior.
"Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead," she mourned, counting the decaying trunks.
Upon hatching, the tadpoles wriggle down through the decaying froth into the water.
This system doesn't produce engaged citizens, but cogs for the decaying Communist system.
Beneath the decaying floorboards, they found another floor – and another and another.
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