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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decay.

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Examples

  • And then you will see that the life of the stone begins to pass from it bit by bit, that it crumbles and peels away, and, in short, decays and is turned again to its dust.

    Twenty-Five Village Sermons Charles Kingsley 1847

  • According to Pauli's hypothesis, which he put forward very hesitantly, neutrinos are elusive particles which escape with the missing energy in - decays.

    Fusion 2000

  • One can tune the Monte Carlo by comparing it to the data on the fake rate measured in K - > pi pi decays, which is much cleaner.

    Scientific Blogging 2009

  • The assumption is that a radio-active substance, like uranium, "decays," or passes into many other substances, of which radium is one, finally producing lead in 1,000,000,000 years or more.

    The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments

  • Mine eye mourneth -- literally, "decays," or fails, denoting exhaustion (Ps 6: 7; 31: 9).

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • However, as he slowly "decays" in this issue my opinion changed.

    TrekWeb - Browse, Bicker, and Boldly Go (Star Trek) 2010

  • In short, even without any mechanism of retaliation and with full knowledge of free-riding by participants, behavior only "decays" to "Homo Economicus" towards the end.

    Freedom Democrats - Online Community for Libertarian Democrats 2008

  • They will take care of politics itself, governing with honor and generosity rather than ideology and fear, understanding that a nation decays when its people lose confidence in their own leaders.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • They will take care of politics itself, governing with honor and generosity rather than ideology and fear, understanding that a nation decays when its people lose confidence in their own leaders.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • They will take care of politics itself, governing with honor and generosity rather than ideology and fear, understanding that a nation decays when its people lose confidence in their own leaders.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

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