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- verb obsolete Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
decay .
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Examples
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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
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Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
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Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
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The apple fadeth, the quince decayeth, and one by one they perish, the petals of the rose.
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By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.
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By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.
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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
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So when he had sent for and seen their old one, he laid it by, and said, ‘Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.’
The Holy War 2001
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Everything of to – day — it falleth, it decayeth; who would preserve it!
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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up; so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
Job 14. 1999
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