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Webster 1828 Edition


Decaying

DECA'YING

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ppr.
Failing; declining; passing from a good, prosperous or sound state, to a worse condition; perishing.

DECA'YING

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Noun.
Decay; decline.
DECE'ASE, n. [L. to depart or to withdraw.] Literally, departure; hence, departure from this life; death; applied to human beings only.

Definition 2024


decaying

decaying

English

Verb

decaying

  1. present participle of decay

Noun

decaying (plural decayings)

  1. The act of something that decays.
    • 1839, William Jenkyn, James Sherman, An Exposition Upon the Epistle of Jude, page 274:
      Spiritual witherings and decayings are opposite to the word of God.