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- verb Present participle of
decay .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In her forthcoming term, she plans to help open up France to private medicine, in an effort to offset what she calls a decaying public sector.
Latest financial, market & economic news and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2010
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He pressed Egyptians to peacefully bring down what he called a decaying regime and threatened
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But, as noted, there may be some great opportunities in decaying suburbs, if you know how to make opportunity work for you. serial catowner Says:
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America is decaying from the inside out, we need a better CLASS of Americans. lyn
Heckler Wilson 'a decent guy' with lock on district, observers say 2009
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But Ngurn's father, wrapped in decaying grass-matting and hanging even then over their heads among the smoky rafters of the devil-devil house, had held otherwise.
THE RED ONE 2010
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Our first pooch, Stinko (she earned the name by routinely rolling around in decaying organic matter), would cower and shake in the back of the car.
Life on Four Wheels Ralph gardner Jr. 2010
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Not cartoony ugly, like Basil Wolverton, but blotchy and smelly and decaying from the inside out.
Boing Boing: January 18, 2004 - January 24, 2004 Archives 2004
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The Bird Cage theater, crumbling, dusty, and decaying, is the Old West.
BACK! 2001
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I even bought a house in decaying Yorkville as a wedding present for the girl I was courting, that is, was courting over thirty years ago.
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But Ngurn's father, wrapped in decaying grass-matting and hanging even then over their heads among the smoky rafters of the devil-devil house, had held otherwise.
The Red One 1918
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