decayed

Adjective

(comparative more decayed, superlative most decayed)

Having decayed.
The decayed remains of the pilot's shirt showed where the plane had been shot down.

Verb

simple past tense and past participle of decay

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It was in a decayed condition.
But as Tyre decayed in power the colonies turned more and more to Carthage as their natural parent and protector.
2, 4) attributed to this war the decayed state of several cities.
South, is a decayed member of the Cinque Port of Dover.
The almshouse established in 1592 by Sir John Hawkins for decayed seamen and shipwrights is still extant, the building having been re-erected in the 19th century; but the fund called the Chatham Chest, originated by Hawkins and Drake in 1588, was incorporated with Greenwich Hospital in 1802.

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