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decaying Synonyms

decaying

modif.

rotting, crumbling, spoiling, decomposing, breaking down, breaking up, wasting away, falling, deteriorating, rusting, oxidizing, eroding, wearing away, disintegrating, worsening, collapsing, tumbling down, falling to pieces; see also dying 2, rotten 1, 3.

decaying Quotes

So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade; All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in endless night. Then while time serves, and we are but decaying; Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a Maying.

—Herrick, Robert

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