Synonym of the word DECAY

n. The process or result of being gradually decomposed.
n. A deterioration of condition.
v. (intransitive) To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.
v. (intransitive, of organic material) To rot, to go bad.
v. (intransitive, transitive, physics, chemistry, of an unstable atom) To change by undergoing fission, by…
v. (intransitive, transitive, physics, of a quantum system) To undergo optical decay, that is, to relax to…
v. (intransitive, aviation) Loss of airspeed due to drag.
v. (transitive) To cause to rot or deteriorate.

n. Something done so as to accomplish a purpose.
n. A way of motion or functioning.
n. A fast-paced activity.
n. A mechanism; a moving part or assembly.
n. (music): The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano,…
n. (slang) sexual intercourse.
n. The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on the guitar.
n. (military) Combat.
n. (law) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
n. (mathematics) A mapping from a pairing of mathematical objects to one of them, respecting their individual…
n. The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem,…
n. (art, painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive…
n. (bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.
n. (business, obsolete, a Gallicism) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public…
interj. Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually an act or scene of a theatric performance.
v. (transitive, management) To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.
v. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To initiate a legal action against someone.

n. The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active…
n. Something done as an action or a movement.
n. Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.
n. Use (of internet, Playstation, bank account etc.).

v. (intransitive) To become something different.
v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
v. (transitive) To replace.
v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
v. (archaic) To exchange.
v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

v. To fall apart; to disintegrate.
v. To render into crumbs.
n. A dessert of British origin containing stewed fruit topped with a crumbly mixture of fat, flour, and sugar.

n. Downward movement, fall.
n. A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
n. A weakening.
n. A reduction or diminution of activity.
v. (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
v. (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
v. (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
v. (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
v. To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
v. (transitive) To refuse, forbear.
v. (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number and…
v. (by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
v. (American football, Canadian football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because…

v. (transitive) to separate or break down something into its components; to disintegrate or fragment.
v. (intransitive) to rot, decay or putrefy.

n. A biological process through which organic material is reduced to e.g. compost.
n. The act of taking something apart, e.g. for analysis.
n. The splitting (of e.g. a matrix, an atom, or a compound) into constituent parts.

v. (intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.
v. (transitive) To make (a quantity) smaller.
n. An amount by which a quantity is decreased.
n. (knitting) A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be…

n. A process by which anything disintegrates.
n. The condition of anything which has disintegrated.
n. (geology) A wearing away or falling to pieces of rocks or strata, produced by atmospheric action, frost,…

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