Decay Verb 1 2 3, Past and Past Participle Form Tense of Decay V1 V2 V3
decay
Meanings;
- (of organic matter) rot or decompose through the action of bacteria and fungi.(intransitive verb)
- The state or process of rotting or decomposition.(noun)
| Verb(V1) | Past Tense(V2) | Past Participle(V3) |
| decay | decayed | decayed |
| Verb – es(Ves) | Verb – ing(Ving) |
| decays | decaying |
Synonyms
decompose, rot, putrefy, go bad, go off, spoil, fester, perish, deteriorate, decomposition, rotting, going bad, putrefaction, putrescence, putridity, festering, spoilage, perishing, withering, shrivelling,
Example Sentences with decay
- If you don’t brush your teeth regularly, your teeth decays.
- I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust.
- A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.
- If you don’t brush your teeth, they will decay and cause pain.
- Too many sweets cause your teeth to decay.
- The dentist pulled out his decayed tooth.
- They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.
- I feel about Photoshop the way some people feel about abortion. It is appalling and a tragic reflection on the moral decay of our society…unless I need it, in which case, everybody be cool.
- I don’t do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.
- And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
- We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
