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We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.
William Henry Hudson

Meaning of "decaying" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DECAYING

decaying  [dɪˈkeɪɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DECAYING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Decaying is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES DECAYING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of decaying in the English dictionary

The definition of decaying in the dictionary is rotting as a result of bacterial, fungal, or chemical action; decomposing. Other definition of decaying is declining gradually in health, prosperity, excellence, etc; deteriorating; wasting away.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DECAYING


bricklaying
ˈbrɪkˌleɪɪŋ
cable-laying
ˈkeɪbəlˌleɪɪŋ
dismaying
dɪsˈmeɪɪŋ
ebaying
ˈiːˌbeɪɪŋ
fee-paying
ˈfiːˌpeɪɪŋ
graying
ˈɡreɪɪŋ
greying
ˈɡreɪɪŋ
inlaying
ˈɪnˌleɪɪŋ
laying
ˈleɪɪŋ
Maying
ˈmeɪɪŋ
neighing
ˈneɪɪŋ
overlaying
ˌəʊvəˈleɪɪŋ
paying
ˈpeɪɪŋ
playing
ˈpleɪɪŋ
praying
ˈpreɪɪŋ
saying
ˈseɪɪŋ
slaying
ˈsleɪɪŋ
soothsaying
ˈsuːθˌseɪɪŋ
surveying
sɜːˈveɪɪŋ
taxpaying
ˈtæksˌpeɪɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DECAYING

decarburize
decare
decartelize
decastere
decastich
decastyle
decasualisation
decasualization
decasualize
decasyllabic
decasyllable
decathlete
decathlon
Decatur
decaudate
decay
decayable
decayed
decayer
decayless

WORDS THAT END LIKE DECAYING

buying
copying
crop spraying
crying
deejaying
dying
flying
go without saying
hedge laying
long-playing
metal spraying
minelaying
nonplaying
role playing
role-playing
that goes without saying
tracklaying
trying
undelaying
unstaying

Synonyms and antonyms of decaying in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DECAYING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «decaying» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of decaying

Translation of «decaying» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DECAYING

Find out the translation of decaying to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of decaying from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «decaying» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

衰减
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

en descomposición
570 millions of speakers

English

decaying
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

खस्ताहाल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المتحللة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

затухающая
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

decadente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ক্ষীয়মান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

décomposition
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Merosot
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

verfall
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

減衰
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

부패
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Decaying
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mục nát
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சிதைந்து
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Decaying
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çürüyen
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

decadimento
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rozpadają
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

загасаюча
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

descompunere
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σάπια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vervalle
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ruttnande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

råtnende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of decaying

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DECAYING»

The term «decaying» is quite widely used and occupies the 35.865 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DECAYING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about decaying

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7 QUOTES WITH «DECAYING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word decaying.
1
William S. Burroughs
Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered.
2
Ernst Fischer
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
3
Nikki Giovanni
Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.
4
William Henry Hudson
We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.
5
Bethany McLean
Proponents of privatization argued that cities and states needed private capital to fund all the upgrades that our decaying infrastructure so desperately needed.
6
Siddhartha Mukherjee
I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and decaying quality was very interesting to me, and it seemed that one could explore the idea that every age defined its own illness.
7
Jeff Vandermeer
I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DECAYING»

Discover the use of decaying in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to decaying and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Search for SM Higgs Decaying to Two Photons Via ATLAS Detector
This dissertation reports the discovery potential of the Standard Model Higgs boson with the di-photon decay using the ATLAS detector.
Yaquan Fang, 2008
2
Search for the Flavor Changing Neutral Current Decay of Top ...
This thesis reports the results of a search for the flavor changing neutral current decay of the top quark, t → Zq, in decays of tt pairs produced in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV.
Jennifer Lindsay Gimmell, 2009
3
Search for CP Violation in Neutral B(s) Meson Decaying to ...
The CDF experiment, which uses pp collisions at s = 1.9 TeV produced at the Fermilab Tevatron, is unique in its ability to observe all flavors of B hadrons and measure their properties.
Chunlei Liu, 2008
4
Search for Charged W Boson Decaying to Top Quark-antibottom ...
We present a search for a narrow resonance in the tb¯ mass spectrum using 1.9 fb-1 of pp¯ collisions at s = 1.96 TeV recorded with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron.
J. Clark Cully, 2009
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Search for Rare Quark-annihilation Decays, Charged B Mesons ...
We report on a search for the decay B+/- → D*+/- sf using 212.2 fb-1 of data collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II B Factory at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center between 1999 and 2004.
J. Adam M. Cunha, 2006
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Atlas of wood decaying fungi
This book is addressed to professionals, such as agriculturists, biologists, ecologists, and landscape architects, as well as to amateur biologists and enthusiasts of Nature.
Yordanka. Stancheva, 2009
7
Decaying splendours: two palaces : reflections in an Indian ...
The Palaces Studied Are From Ootacamund And In Bangalore. Name Of The Previous Owner In Pen On The First Board.
Stephen Weeks, 1979
8
A Study of Angular Asymmetries in the Rare Decay B Meson ...
A strong peak can be seen for the e+e− and the μ+e− events. In these two cases, the electron originates from the semi-leptonically decaying D-meson (which originates from Figure 4.7: cosθl GSB data distributions for standard and LFV 91  ...
Christopher James Schilling, 2008
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Measurement of the Charmed B(+/-) Meson Lifetime Using ...
decaying. These ”stable” particles include: π±, K±, K0L, p±, e±, μ±, and γ. Of particular interest are the trajectories of charged ”stable” particles, which are tracked by the detector and used for the reconstruction events in this analysis.
Mark P. Hartz, 2008
10
Measurement of Charm Mixing Parameters and the Neutral D ...
Because K°L almost always exits the detector before decaying into charged particles or photons, and therefore does not interact, one cannot build K°L objects out of tracks and showers. Instead, a missing mass technique is used where an ...
Adam J. Lincoln, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DECAYING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term decaying is used in the context of the following news items.
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PATTI AMSDEN: The decaying influence of too much
Unrestrained self-indulgence has a decaying influence. Giving provides an opportunity for us to dry out. As a gardener, I will be limiting my ... «STLtoday.com, Jul 15»
2
Future of Oakland's Kaiser Convention Center yet to be decided
The future of the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center, a decaying Beaux Arts citadel on the lip of Lake Merritt, is still up for debate. Ten years ... «SFGate, Jul 15»
3
In 'The Love She Left Behind,' Mourning Is No Gimmick
But the event draws her two estranged children, Nigel and Louise, down to the decaying mansion in Cornwall where she'd spent the past 35 ... «WCAI, Jul 15»
4
Rundown Pittsburgh neighbourhood fights crime through social …
One of its first major buyouts – an $8.2m project – turned a scattered group of decaying buildings and empty lots into 41 units of mixed income ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
5
Typhoon Chan-Hom 'eyes' NASA's Aqua satellite
The JTWC forecast predicts that Chan-Hom will make landfall near Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China and begin decaying due to land interaction. «Phys.Org, Jul 15»
6
Collectors' fossilized teeth, evidence of 60-foot shark
There are strong currents and root of decaying trees on the bottom can be a divers nightmare. The light goes out about 15 feet down in a 40 foot ... «Asbury Park Press, Jul 15»
7
Consumer Reports: Clearing mosquitoes from your deck
... to rid your yard of water-filled containers, which are often where mosquitoes breed, and clear away ivy and decaying leaves, where they hide. «9NEWS.com, Jul 15»
8
NBA in Montreal: Hoop dream or reality?
There is the decaying Olympic Stadium where Gary Carter used to catch. The MLS and CFL teams lack sellouts. People who'd like to see ... «Sportsnet.ca, Jul 15»
9
Lincoln Park band shell ready for rock legends, thanks to community …
The aged and decaying stage known for summertime entertainment was transformed by the donations of community members (and even some ... «Southgate News Herald, Jul 15»
10
Penny Dreadful season 2 episode 10 review: And They Were Enemies
The temptation scene is elegantly constructed, a warmer colour palette for the Murrays' corrupted, decaying domesticity contrasting sharply with ... «Den Of Geek, Jul 15»

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