Definition for Decay:

• [ Nuclear physics] An automatic conversion which is applied tomost array-valued expressions in C; they " decay into"pointer-valued expressions pointing to the array's firstelement. This term is not used in the official standard forthe language.

Synonyms for Decay:

• n.

  •
  • sense,
  • failing,
  • aggravation,
  • decrease,
  • disrepair,
  • breakdown,
  • extinction,
  • depreciation,
  • downfall,
  • contamination,
  • impairment,
  • wreckage,
  • wear and tear,
  • ruin,
  • ruination,
  • consumption,
  • degradation,
  • decadence,
  • reduction,
  • failure,
  • senescence,
  • perversion,
  • degeneracy,
  • Retrogradation,
  • decrepitude,
  • regression,
  • spoiling,
  • discoloration,
  • Crumbling.
  •
  • go to pot,
  • biodegrade,
  • perish,
  • go off,
  • thrive,
  • go bad,
  • fester,
  • better,
  • curdle,
  • taint.
  •
  • breakage,
  • blemish,
  • burnout,
  • blister,
  • bruise,
  • burn,
  • chip.
  •
  • spiral,
  • escalate,
  • deepen.
  •
  • destruction,
  • damage,
  • sabotage,
  • demolition,
  • devastation,
  • harm,
  • havoc.
  •adulteration (noun)
  • contamination,
  • corruption.
  •breaking down, collapse (noun)
  • spoilation,
  • fading,
  • downfall,
  • Perishing,
  • decline,
  • decrepitude,
  • impairment,
  • degeneracy,
  • senescence,
  • decrease,
  • caries,
  • failing,
  • wasting away,
  • putrefaction,
  • wasting,
  • decomposition,
  • corrosion,
  • mortification,
  • blight,
  • rotting,
  • disrepair,
  • dying,
  • putrescence,
  • extinction,
  • withering,
  • deterioration,
  • depreciation,
  • atrophy,
  • putridness,
  • rust,
  • gangrene,
  • dissolution,
  • decadence,
  • adulteration,
  • consumption,
  • rot,
  • disintegration,
  • ruination,
  • degeneration,
  • Crumbling,
  • dilapidation,
  • ruin,
  • putridity,
  • spoilage.
  •corrosion (noun)
  • oxidation,
  • rust.
  •decadence (noun)
  • devolution.
  •decay (noun)
  • disintegration,
  • decomposition,
  • disintegrate,
  • delapidate,
  • decompose,
  • radioactive decay,
  • decline,
  • crumble.
  •decomposition (noun)
  • rust,
  • mold,
  • decrepitude,
  • rottenness,
  • blight,
  • sense,
  • adulteration,
  • spur,
  • putrescence,
  • emaciation,
  • freshness,
  • carrion,
  • mildew.
  •deterioration (noun)
  • putrefaction,
  • degeneration,
  • dilapidation,
  • deterioration,
  • degeneracy,
  • retrogression,
  • decadence,
  • corruption.
  •disease (noun)
  • blight.
  •disintegration (noun)
  • mortification,
  • dissection,
  • gangrene,
  • dissolution,
  • disintegration,
  • spoilage,
  • decomposition,
  • chaos.
  •failure (noun)
  • Unsuccess,
  • nonfeasance,
  • implosion,
  • insolvency.
  •feebleness (noun)
  • decrepitude.
  •impurity (noun)
  • contamination.
  •phenomenon (noun)
  • decomposition.
  •process (noun)
  • decline.
  •ruin (noun)
  • havoc,
  • ruin.
  •unsubstantiality (noun)
  • unsubstantiality.
  •vulgarism (noun)
  • vulgarism.
  •waste (noun)
  • slop,
  • garbage,
  • leakage,
  • rubbish,
  • residue,
  • remnant,
  • junk,
  • chaff,
  • detritus,
  • Dejecta,
  • Filings,
  • effluent,
  • offal,
  • refuse,
  • despoilment,
  • debris,
  • waste.

• v.

  •change (verb)
  • disintegrate,
  • dilapidate,
  • crumble,
  • decompose.
  •deteriorate (verb)
  • wane,
  • worsen,
  • slide,
  • sink,
  • moulder,
  • lapse,
  • decline,
  • relapse,
  • slump,
  • tergiversate,
  • atrophy,
  • wither,
  • collapse,
  • dilapidate,
  • fade,
  • stagnate,
  • retrogress,
  • slip,
  • regress,
  • wilt,
  • ebb,
  • fall apart,
  • deteriorate,
  • revert,
  • get worse,
  • go downhill,
  • downgrade.
  •deteriorate, crumble (verb)
  • be impaired,
  • curdle,
  • sicken,
  • corrode,
  • molder,
  • discolor,
  • putrefy,
  • pejorate,
  • dissolve,
  • shrivel,
  • waste away,
  • go to the dogs,
  • collapse,
  • Putresce,
  • disintegrate,
  • degenerate,
  • hit rock bottom,
  • slump,
  • defile,
  • sap,
  • spoil,
  • fail,
  • go to seed,
  • get worse,
  • depreciate,
  • sink,
  • mortify,
  • reach depths,
  • mildew,
  • wither,
  • wear away,
  • perish,
  • turn,
  • dwindle,
  • wane,
  • weaken,
  • hit the skids,
  • fade,
  • dry-rot,
  • mold,
  • lessen,
  • pollute,
  • suppurate,
  • go bad,
  • decompose,
  • become contaminated.
  •disintegrate (verb)
  • rupture,
  • disintegrate,
  • dissolve,
  • rot,
  • putrefy,
  • mortify,
  • dissect,
  • anatomize,
  • decompose,
  • spoil,
  • turn,
  • degenerate,
  • erode,
  • fracture,
  • crumble,
  • break,
  • shatter.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • taint,
  • wear and tear,
  • consumption,
  • carrion,
  • depredation,
  • turn sour,
  • regression,
  • rottenness,
  • biodegrade,
  • putrescence,
  • dereliction,
  • fester,
  • curdle,
  • depreciate,
  • devastation,
  • perversion,
  • implosion,
  • degradation,
  • perish,
  • putridness,
  • corrosion.
  •
  • vegetate,
  • harm,
  • demolition,
  • damage,
  • breakage,
  • breakdown,
  • corrode,
  • wear out,
  • destruction,
  • cavity,
  • wreckage.
  •
  • die,
  • sabotage,
  • aggravation,
  • mold,
  • fail.
  •
  • sour.
  •
  • toll,
  • ruin,
  • cost,
  • go off.
  •
  • ill.
  •
  • trail.
  •
  • burst,
  • wear.
  •corruption
  • necrosis.
  •decline
  • seed.
  •decrease
  • tail off,
  • run low,
  • peter.
  •decrepitude
  • disrepair.
  •degenerate
  • go bad.
  •destroy
  • consume.
  •deteriorate
  • sink.
  •die
  • melt away,
  • go bad,
  • dilapidate.
  •disintegrate
  • fall to pieces,
  • come apart,
  • break apart.
  •eat
  • wasting away,
  • waste away.
  •fester
  • suppurate,
  • ulcerate.
  •oxidize
  • rust.
  •peter
  • peter out.
  •pine
  • fall away.
  •smut
  • mildew.
  •stagnate
  • go to seed.
  •waste
  • emaciate.
  •wearing away
  • erosion.
  •Other relevant words:
  • wreck,
  • desiccate,
  • filthiness,
  • emaciation,
  • guano,
  • euthanasia,
  • corrode,
  • sphacelus,
  • wear and tear,
  • senility,
  • ruin,
  • dwindling,
  • atomize,
  • reach depths,
  • dialysis,
  • rankness,
  • dung,
  • decrepitude,
  • fail,
  • tasteless,
  • moldiness,
  • degradability,
  • radioactive decay,
  • discolor,
  • plain,
  • backslide,
  • obscenity,
  • Thermolysis,
  • enfeeblement,
  • entropy,
  • shake,
  • be consumed,
  • devolve,
  • taint,
  • diminish,
  • insolvency,
  • lessen,
  • sphacelate,
  • ill,
  • descent,
  • sap,
  • narrow,
  • diminution,
  • wreckage,
  • mold,
  • filth,
  • vulgarism,
  • rankle,
  • disease,
  • die out,
  • degradation,
  • short memory,
  • unnecessary,
  • malodorous,
  • burst,
  • trail,
  • rust,
  • maturity,
  • die away,
  • abomination,
  • erode,
  • decomposition reaction,
  • deepen,
  • undermine,
  • decadence,
  • hydrolysis,
  • dissociation,
  • antiquity,
  • snot,
  • marasmus,
  • droop,
  • slime,
  • pointless,
  • ordure,
  • unsubstantiality,
  • debility,
  • run low,
  • soil,
  • breakage,
  • thrive,
  • manure,
  • foul,
  • Retrogradation,
  • melt away,
  • curdle,
  • trivial,
  • Rancidness,
  • disorganization,
  • nonfeasance,
  • discontinuance,
  • insubstantiality,
  • shit,
  • ulcerate,
  • putridness,
  • disjunction,
  • ebbing,
  • septic,
  • disbandment,
  • vice,
  • dismantle,
  • dull,
  • breakup,
  • miscarriage,
  • eat,
  • weakening,
  • impairment,
  • wear,
  • crack,
  • downslope,
  • dirty,
  • dye,
  • split,
  • dissolving,
  • fall,
  • sabotage,
  • defile,
  • infirmity,
  • fading,
  • addle,
  • plant louse,
  • weaken,
  • declension,
  • soilure,
  • conquest,
  • bankruptcy,
  • demolish,
  • dandruff,
  • peter,
  • tired,
  • reduction,
  • termination,
  • dwindle,
  • spoiling,
  • waste away,
  • spur,
  • peter out,
  • resolution,
  • carrion,
  • hydrolyst,
  • mucor,
  • deafen,
  • fall off,
  • stagnate,
  • falloff,
  • bite,
  • gnaw,
  • waning,
  • faeces,
  • insipid,
  • mucus,
  • tooth decay,
  • Furfur,
  • foul matter,
  • drain,
  • spring a leak,
  • weakliness,
  • Perishing,
  • Rancidity,
  • disappear,
  • ending,
  • trash,
  • feeble,
  • havoc,
  • crumple,
  • oxidation,
  • sewage,
  • excreta,
  • chip,
  • comedown,
  • defeat,
  • dismissal,
  • violent death,
  • bland,
  • freshness,
  • aphid,
  • mildew,
  • grunge,
  • prostration,
  • dirt,
  • weathered,
  • rotten,
  • pollute,
  • slough,
  • pus,
  • rotting,
  • corrupt,
  • totter,
  • subside,
  • ordinary,
  • flag,
  • griminess,
  • burnout,
  • killing,
  • breakdown,
  • burn,
  • poor,
  • depreciation,
  • overthrow,
  • cavity,
  • discoloration,
  • Defoedation,
  • mouldy,
  • shorten,
  • damage,
  • languish,
  • declivity,
  • falling down,
  • senescence,
  • extinction,
  • putrescence,
  • sour,
  • deaden,
  • tumble,
  • sludge,
  • failure,
  • crud,
  • shrinkage,
  • twilight,
  • muck,
  • desert,
  • degeneracy,
  • become rancid,
  • necrosis,
  • fission,
  • devolution,
  • dyspepsia,
  • wiping out,
  • become smaller,
  • withering,
  • debilitation,
  • fester,
  • consumption,
  • undoing,
  • vegetate,
  • abridge,
  • corrosion,
  • idle,
  • weakness,
  • gutter,
  • Crumbling,
  • spoilation,
  • break down,
  • start,
  • sicken,
  • fall to pieces,
  • catalyst,
  • finish,
  • jejune,
  • dispersal,
  • depreciate,
  • defilement,
  • ablation,
  • grow less,
  • perish,
  • mess,
  • demolition,
  • must,
  • useless,
  • flat,
  • dump,
  • annihilation,
  • get lost,
  • disjoin,
  • decrement,
  • debilitate,
  • Leavings,
  • Sweal,
  • contamination,
  • contaminate,
  • bruise,
  • oxidization,
  • Deliquesce,
  • hit the skids,
  • wasting,
  • downturn,
  • atomise,
  • declination,
  • blister,
  • melt,
  • wear out,
  • leaven,
  • be ruined,
  • fetid,
  • ruination,
  • sudden death,
  • gunge,
  • lapse of memory,
  • go to pot,
  • smut,
  • go to pieces,
  • spiral,
  • lowering,
  • smelt,
  • putrid,
  • suppurate,
  • emaciate,
  • vector decomposition,
  • Rubigo,
  • incoherence,
  • liquidation,
  • fall away,
  • implosion,
  • paralysis,
  • wasting away,
  • scuz,
  • dry-rot,
  • turn sour,
  • decrease,
  • biodegrade,
  • squalor,
  • retire,
  • give out,
  • festering,
  • come to grief,
  • Puceron,
  • splitting,
  • better,
  • untimely end,
  • discontinuation,
  • death blow,
  • blight,
  • putridity,
  • ablate,
  • go to seed,
  • molder,
  • adulteration,
  • scurf,
  • droppings,
  • weak,
  • biodegradability,
  • descend,
  • delicate,
  • slacken,
  • ooze,
  • erosion,
  • NATURAL DEATH,
  • conclusion,
  • wear away,
  • lifeless,
  • slackening,
  • decease,
  • caries,
  • Tainture,
  • pollution,
  • Decaying,
  • Sordes,
  • hit rock bottom,
  • cost,
  • wizen,
  • go,
  • cachexia,
  • oldness,
  • canker,
  • drop,
  • break apart,
  • sense,
  • adjournment,
  • decrepit,
  • indifferent,
  • Soiliness,
  • seed,
  • Putresce,
  • eclipse,
  • harm,
  • regression,
  • disrepair,
  • become contaminated,
  • come apart,
  • catalysis,
  • aggravation,
  • puniness,
  • necrose,
  • Sphacelation,
  • dying,
  • age,
  • invalidation,
  • tail off,
  • pejorate,
  • rottenness,
  • work,
  • Sullage,
  • ferment,
  • dereliction,
  • failing,
  • contract,
  • grubbiness,
  • downfall,
  • commonplace,
  • escalate,
  • delapidate,
  • go to the dogs,
  • blemish,
  • fetor,
  • palsy,
  • consume,
  • perversion,
  • sewerage,
  • ravages of time,
  • disorganize,
  • shrivel,
  • radioactivity,
  • shrink,
  • go bad,
  • reverse,
  • worsening,
  • suffocation,
  • vapid,
  • be impaired,
  • asphyxia,
  • Unsuccess,
  • mould,
  • foulness,
  • sag,
  • loss,
  • run,
  • Photolysis,
  • go off,
  • end,
  • devastation,
  • enfeeble,
  • destruction,
  • indigestion,
  • lessening,
  • toll,
  • depredation,
  • atomization,
  • cachexy,
  • Biodegradation,
  • delicacy,
  • die.

Antonyms for Decay:

• n.

  • breaking down, collapse
    rise, building, increase, morality, development, ascent, construction, strength, strengthening, flourish, growth, germination, improvement, ripening.
  • Other antonyms:
    strengthening, revitalization, rehabilitation, recuperation, comeback, invigoration, recovery, Rejuvenescence, rejuvenation, rally, snapback.

• v.

  • deteriorate, crumble
    ripen, extend, improve, prosper, color, strengthen, expand, germinate, put together, help, build, develop, brighten, unite, make well, enlarge, ascend, raise, combine, grow.

Homophones for Decay:

• duteous, dyadic, dioecious, dog house, disk-jockey, douche, dak, days, dika, dug, dekko, dash, des, dog show, deck, disguise, detox, dotage, dike, dixie, disk, deck-house, duse, discus, decoke, dodgy, disc jockey, dds, Dhaka, DTIC, do the dishes, diazo, duchy, degauss, dice, de-access, decius, deutzia, degas, dacha, disk access, dish, Diesis, dig, doge, dassie, dietetics, 366 days, discuss, dyschezia, dog, death tax, dock, diaz, De Sica, doze, deuce-ace, dias, dago, disease, dockage, dacca, dec 25, dick, DCI, doohickey, disuse, death wish, duck, dachau, das, dogy, dowse, dyaus, dagga, detach, daishiki, disc-jockey, doggy, disc, dusky, doc, decease, dizzy, degage, duck sauce, deathwatch, dg, dusk, doughy, dec 24, deeds, DoJC, dachsie, deixis, dawes, DECO, dosage, dhak, disk jockey, dj, deduce, dec, dickey, disco, decoy, dutch, Dutch Hoe, dietetic, dag, dhegiha, dosshouse, dukas, doxy, disk cache, doghouse, ducky, dickie, dead duck, dozy, duck's egg, daucus, deice, de-ice, dts, dogie, dehisce, dis, DoJ, d.c., detick, duchess, dicky, dead sea, disa, deuce, dodge, doss, desk, dizygous, day watch, dkg, dekay, daisy, discase, dace, diss, dishy, daze, desex, duds, ds, diathesis, detusk, duce, death house, dos, 365 days, digs, dough, diocese, DC, douse, dix, dais, dose, ditch, dyke, dicey, duke, dashiki, doggo, doggie.

Hypernym for Decay:

• n.

  • process
    cavity, dilapidation, ruin, exponential return, dental caries, rot, exponential decay, spoilage, rotting, caries, putrefaction, breakdown, decomposition, corruption, tooth decay, spoiling.
  • state
    disintegration, decomposition, Rancidity, deterioration, impairment, putrefaction, rot.

• v.

  • change
    wear away, erode, eat at, decompose, molder, ruin, gnaw, droop, Deliquesce, bust, corrode, wear out, rust, rot, go bad, spoil, gnaw at, moulder, break, fall apart, deteriorate, wilt, putrefy, wear, weather.

Hyponym for Decay:

• n.

  • phenomenon
    organic phenomenon.
  • process
    natural action, decrease, action, decrement, activity, natural process.
  • state
    unsoundness.

• v.

  • change
    change, change integrity.