decayed

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /dɪˈkeɪd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: de‧cayed
• Rhymes: -eɪd

Adjective

decayed (comparative more decayed, superlative most decayed)

1. Having undergone decay; rotted.

   The decayed remains of the pilot's shirt showed where the plane had been shot down.

2. (dated) Reduced in circumstances; having lost one's status or fortune.

Derived terms

• decayedness
• nondecayed
• semidecayed
• undecayed

Translations

rotted

• Aragonese: podriu
• Galician: podre (gl), mucio
• German: kaduk (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: σαπρός (saprós)

• Hindi: जर्जर (hi) (jarjar)
• Latin: puter, cariōsus
• Malayalam: ജീർണ്ണിച്ച (jīṟṇṇicca), ചീഞ്ഞ (cīñña)
• Māori: pipirau, pirapirau
• Russian: разложи́вшийся (ru) (razložívšijsja)
• Sanskrit: क्षित (sa) (kṣita), जर्जर (sa) (jarjara)
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: چوروك (çürük)

Verb

decayed

1. simple past and past participle of decay