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Discover LudwigThe phrase 'was decaying' is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
For example, you could use it in a sentence such as, "The old house was decaying, its paint peeling and its windows cracked."
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was 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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So the nuclear programme was decaying steadily".
Plaster was decaying in places and falling off the wall.
The mail was stacking up, and food was decaying in the refrigerator.
"Even though the place was decaying and literally falling apart," he says, "an old lady still lives there.
The devadasi system, which had flourished for centuries, was decaying even as she married Lord Jagannath around 1930.
By the mid-1990's, political killings, an economic crisis and a succession of corruption cases suggested that the old order in the party was decaying.
Similar(42)
Both are decaying badly.
His lungs were decaying.
My teeth are decaying.
Venezuela's infrastructure is decaying.
The old paradigm is decaying.
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