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Decayed

adjective

Damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless. Synonyms: rotted, rotten. "Rotted beams" , "A decayed foundation"

Decay

verb

(past & past part. decayed; pres. part. decaying)

Lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current. Synonyms: decompose, disintegrate.

Fall into decay or ruin. Synonyms: crumble, dilapidate.

Undergo decay or decomposition.

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... camping ground covering several acres. It had evidently been at one time a general rendezvous of the Indians hunting in this section, as was indicated by the large number of wigwams that had been pitched here. That was a long while ago, however, for the old poles were so decayed that they fell into pieces when we attempted to pick ...

— The Long Labrador Trail • Dillon Wallace

... examined the most archaic forms of the survival of totemism in Britain. If we pass on to inquire whether we can detect the more scattered and decayed remnants of totem beliefs and customs, we turn to Mr. Frazer as our guide. From Mr. Frazer's review of the beliefs and customs incidental to the totemistic organisation of savage people, it is possible to extract a formula for ascertaining the classification of savage beliefs and practices ...

— Folklore as an Historical Science • George Laurence Gomme

... The one street along the river was hot and sandy and neglected. One had not only to wade through the sand, but to step over the dried heads or horns or bones of animals left there to whiten where they died, or thrown out, possibly, when some one killed a sheep or beef. Nothing decayed there, but dried and baked hard in that wonderful ...

— Vanished Arizona - Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman • Martha Summerhayes

... rusty that it was worth nothing. They also went on board the Falmouth to examine her hulk, and found her in so shattered a condition, that in their opinion she could not be kept together during the next monsoon. Many of her ports were washed into one, the stern-post was quite decayed, and there was no place in her where a man could be sheltered from the weather. The few people who belonged to her were in as bad a state as their vessel, being quite broken and worn down, and expecting to be drowned as soon as the ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 12 • Robert Kerr

... true. However, where her claims to distinction were not opposed, and where her prejudices were not offended, she could be kind and friendly enough. To her two brothers (for there was another Gerard Moore besides Robert) she was very much attached. As the sole remaining representatives of their decayed family, the persons of both were almost sacred in her eyes. Of Louis, however, she knew less than of Robert. He had been sent to England when a mere boy, and had received his education at an English school. His education not being ...

— Shirley • Charlotte Bronte

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