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Decaying

To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.

📖 Definitions of "Decaying"

verb
  1. 1

    To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.

    "The pair loved to take pictures in the decaying hospital on forty-third street."

  2. 2

    (of organic material) To rot, to go bad.

    "The cat's body decayed rapidly."

  3. 3

    (of an unstable atom) To change by undergoing fission, by emitting radiation, or by capturing or losing one or more electrons.

  4. 4

    (of a quantum system) To undergo optical decay, that is, to relax to a less excited state, usually by emitting a photon or phonon.

noun
  1. 1

    The process of undergoing decay.

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