Толковый словарь английского языка - decay
Decay
decay
I. verb see: chance Date: 15th century intransitive verb to decline from a sound or prosperous condition, to decrease usually gradually in size, quantity, activity, or force, to fall into ruin, to decline in health, strength, or vigor, to undergo decomposition , transitive verb to cause to ~ ; impair , to destroy by decomposition, ~er noun Synonyms: see: ~ II. noun Date: 15th century gradual decline in strength, soundness, or prosperity or in degree of excellence or perfection, a wasting or wearing away ; ruin , destruction , death , 4. rot , the product of ~, a decline in health or vigor, decrease in quantity, activity, or force: as, spontaneous decrease in the number of radioactive atoms in radioactive material, spontaneous disintegration (as of an atom or a particle)
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v. & n. --v. 1 a intr. rot, decompose. b tr. cause to rot or decompose. 2 intr. & tr. decline or cause to decline in quality, power, wealth, energy, beauty, etc. 3 intr. Physics a (usu. foll. by to) (of a substance etc.) undergo change by radioactivity. b undergo a gradual decrease in magnitude of a physical quantity. --n. 1 a rotten or ruinous state; a process of wasting away. 2 decline in health, quality, etc. 3 Physics a change into another substance etc. by radioactivity. b a decrease in the magnitude of a physical quantity, esp. the intensity of radiation or amplitude of oscillation. 4 decayed tissue. Derivatives decayable adj. Etymology: ME f. OF decair f. Rmc (as DE-, L cadere fall) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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