Synonyms for Decay:

• n.

  •
  • go bad,
  • thrive,
  • better,
  • go to,
  • go off.
  •
  • burnout,
  • bruise,
  • blemish,
  • burn,
  • blister,
  • chip.
  •
  • descend into,
  • go down,
  • deepen,
  • spiral,
  • escalate,
  • slip into.
  •
  • havoc,
  • the ravages of something.
  •adulteration (noun)
  • contamination,
  • corruption.
  •blight (noun)
  • blot landscape,
  • blot the landscape.
  •breaking down, collapse (noun)
  • wasting,
  • impairment,
  • ruination,
  • failing,
  • downfall,
  • wasting away,
  • rust,
  • dilapidation,
  • senescence,
  • fading,
  • putrefaction,
  • disintegration,
  • Crumbling,
  • degeneration,
  • spoilation,
  • depreciation,
  • gangrene,
  • deterioration,
  • withering,
  • decrepitude,
  • degeneracy,
  • atrophy,
  • adulteration,
  • Perishing,
  • dying,
  • spoilage,
  • extinction,
  • mortification.
  •cavity (noun)
  • bursas.
  •consumption (noun)
  • using ups,
  • de-solation,
  • drinkings,
  • de-solations,
  • de solations,
  • wear tear,
  • de solation,
  • consumings.
  •contamination (noun)
  • radio-activations,
  • radio-activation,
  • radio activation,
  • dis-eases,
  • dirtyings,
  • dis ease,
  • dis-ease,
  • radioactivations,
  • radio activations,
  • dis eases,
  • rottennesses.
  •corrosion (noun)
  • oxidation,
  • oxidations.
  •corruption (noun)
  • noxiousnesses,
  • de-basement,
  • de basement,
  • de-basements,
  • de basements,
  • doctorings.
  •decadence (noun)
  • gluttony,
  • Sybaritism,
  • devolution,
  • Gluttonies,
  • sensuality.
  •decay (noun)
  • delapidate,
  • radioactive decay.
  •declension (noun)
  • decadency.
  •decline (noun)
  • re-cessions,
  • de-scents,
  • de scents,
  • on skids,
  • re-cession,
  • re cession,
  • de-scent,
  • re cessions,
  • re lapse,
  • de clines,
  • re-lapses,
  • dwindlings,
  • on the skid,
  • de scent,
  • on skid,
  • falling offs,
  • weakenings,
  • de-clines,
  • re-lapse,
  • re lapses,
  • de cline,
  • de-cline,
  • worsenings.
  •degeneration (noun)
  • de-generations,
  • de-generation,
  • de generation,
  • de generations.
  •deterioration (noun)
  • retrogression.
  •disintegration (noun)
  • chaos,
  • dissection.
  •disrepair (noun)
  • dis-repairs,
  • dis-repair,
  • dis repair,
  • dis repairs.
  •dissolution (noun)
  • dis appearance,
  • re-solution,
  • de-ceases,
  • dis-appearance,
  • dis missals,
  • liquefactions,
  • dis-continuation,
  • dis-continuations,
  • defunctions,
  • meltings,
  • over-throw,
  • re-lease,
  • dis solution,
  • de function,
  • re solutions,
  • de functions,
  • dis continuations,
  • dis missal,
  • dis-solution,
  • de-functions,
  • dis-solutions,
  • de mise,
  • dis-appearances,
  • re lease,
  • de ceases,
  • dis appearances,
  • over throw,
  • de-mises,
  • de mises,
  • dis-missal,
  • de-cease,
  • dis continuation,
  • over-throws,
  • dis-missals,
  • de-mise,
  • de-function,
  • re-leases,
  • re leases,
  • dis solutions,
  • de cease,
  • re-solutions,
  • over throws.
  •ebb (noun)
  • retro-cessions,
  • backflows,
  • re treats,
  • low waters,
  • re-treat,
  • re-treats,
  • re-flux,
  • refluences,
  • re flux,
  • retrofluxes,
  • outward flows,
  • re fluxes,
  • retro fluxes,
  • retro flux,
  • flaggings,
  • refluxes,
  • going outs,
  • re-fluxes,
  • retro-flux,
  • retro cession,
  • petering outs,
  • retrocessions,
  • retro-cession,
  • retro cessions,
  • fading aways,
  • retro-fluxes.
  •entropy (noun)
  • falling aparts.
  •failure (noun)
  • lead balloon,
  • loser,
  • nonperformance,
  • Non-performance,
  • unsuccessfulness,
  • nonsuccess,
  • nonfeasance,
  • faux pas,
  • insolvency,
  • sinking ship,
  • total loss,
  • lemon,
  • washout,
  • Unsuccess,
  • inadequacy,
  • fiasco,
  • non-success.
  •fall apart (noun)
  • fall.
  •griminess (noun)
  • un cleanliness,
  • un-cleanness,
  • un cleannesses,
  • uncleanlinesses,
  • un-cleanliness,
  • un cleanlinesses,
  • un-cleannesses,
  • un-cleanlinesses,
  • un cleanness.
  •infirmity (noun)
  • un-wellness,
  • un healthinesses,
  • un wellnesses,
  • un health,
  • in dispositions,
  • un-wellnesses,
  • un-health,
  • ill healths,
  • un-healthiness,
  • sicklinesses,
  • un wellness,
  • in disposition,
  • unwellnesses,
  • dis-orders,
  • un-healths,
  • diseasednesses,
  • un healthiness,
  • flus,
  • unhealthinesses,
  • dis orders,
  • dis-order,
  • dis order,
  • ailings,
  • unhealths,
  • in-disposition,
  • un-healthinesses,
  • in-dispositions,
  • un healths.
  •insolvency (noun)
  • in solvencies,
  • in-solvency,
  • in solvency,
  • in-solvencies.
  •insubstantiality (noun)
  • in substantiality,
  • in-substantiality,
  • in substantialities,
  • in-substantialities.
  •nonfeasance (noun)
  • de-fault,
  • de fault,
  • non-feasances,
  • de faults,
  • de-faults,
  • non feasance,
  • non feasances.
  •ruin (noun)
  • the end,
  • crackups,
  • crackup.
  •squalor (noun)
  • seediness,
  • grunginess.
  •unsoundness (noun)
  • un soundnesses,
  • un-soundnesses,
  • un soundness,
  • un-soundness.
  •unsubstantiality (noun)
  • unsubstantiality.
  •unsuccess (noun)
  • un-successes,
  • un-success,
  • un success,
  • un successes.
  •unsuccessfulness (noun)
  • un-successfulnesses,
  • un-successfulness,
  • un successfulness,
  • un successfulnesses.
  •vice (noun)
  • maleficence,
  • lubricities,
  • looseness,
  • Lubricity,
  • malignance.
  •vulgarism (noun)
  • vulgarism.
  •waste (noun)
  • despoilment,
  • junk,
  • rubbish,
  • offal,
  • garbage,
  • remnant,
  • leakage,
  • slop,
  • residue,
  • debris,
  • refuse,
  • chaff,
  • effluent,
  • detritus,
  • Filings,
  • Dejecta.

• v.

  •bite (verb)
  • de-cays,
  • dis solve,
  • wore away,
  • dis-solved,
  • de cay,
  • dis solves,
  • dis-solving,
  • de-cay,
  • eat in to,
  • eating in to,
  • de cays,
  • dis solved,
  • dis solving,
  • ate in to,
  • eats in to,
  • eating into,
  • eats into,
  • dis-solves,
  • dis-solve.
  •blight (verb)
  • nip bud,
  • dis-appoints,
  • dis appoints,
  • glitching up,
  • dis appointed,
  • nip in bud,
  • dis appoint,
  • nip the bud,
  • glitches up,
  • dis-appoint,
  • dis-appointed,
  • dis appointing,
  • dis-appointing.
  •change (verb)
  • decay,
  • dilapidate.
  •consume (verb)
  • ex pending,
  • ex-pending,
  • over-whelm,
  • over whelm,
  • ex-pended,
  • over whelming,
  • ex-pends,
  • over-whelmed,
  • over whelms,
  • ex pended,
  • over whelmed,
  • ex pend,
  • ex-pend,
  • ex pends,
  • over-whelms,
  • over-whelming.
  •corrupt (verb)
  • mis-treats,
  • de meaning,
  • de-graded,
  • de-means,
  • mis using,
  • out-rages,
  • out raging,
  • mis-treating,
  • dis-figures,
  • greases palm,
  • de graded,
  • de spoiling,
  • dis figures,
  • de-face,
  • out raged,
  • de grading,
  • de-form,
  • re duces,
  • de-meaning,
  • de based,
  • mis treated,
  • de forming,
  • dis honors,
  • de-spoil,
  • greased palm,
  • de-faces,
  • de grades,
  • de base,
  • dis figured,
  • re-duces,
  • mis-used,
  • de means,
  • dis-honor,
  • de-moralize,
  • de-files,
  • de-spoiled,
  • re duce,
  • de moralizing,
  • dis honoring,
  • de-grades,
  • mis-using,
  • de forms,
  • de-grading,
  • mis used,
  • de-faced,
  • de-filed,
  • de spoils,
  • de-moralizes,
  • under-mining,
  • de moralized,
  • de-file,
  • de-moralized,
  • dis-honored,
  • under-mined,
  • under mining,
  • DE Form,
  • de-mean,
  • dis-graced,
  • de-forms,
  • de files,
  • dis graces,
  • de faces,
  • re-duce,
  • de filed,
  • dis grace,
  • de-forming,
  • dis-figured,
  • de moralizes,
  • de-formed,
  • de-base,
  • dis-figuring,
  • de mean,
  • dis honored,
  • dis-gracing,
  • de-basing,
  • dis-grace,
  • de-filing,
  • dis-honors,
  • de-grade,
  • out-raged,
  • de spoil,
  • de basing,
  • de formed,
  • out-rage,
  • dis-figure,
  • de-spoils,
  • mis treats,
  • de faced,
  • dis gracing,
  • de-facing,
  • de spoiled,
  • mis treating,
  • de moralize,
  • ill treat,
  • de file,
  • de grade,
  • dis figure,
  • de filing,
  • dis-graces,
  • under mined,
  • mis treat,
  • dis graced,
  • de face,
  • de facing,
  • out-raging,
  • greasing palm,
  • out rages,
  • mis-treat,
  • de-based,
  • dis-honoring,
  • de-spoiling,
  • mis-treated,
  • dis honor,
  • dis figuring,
  • de-moralizing,
  • out rage.
  •crumble (verb)
  • de-generating,
  • go pieces,
  • de generates,
  • de-generates,
  • de generating,
  • de generate,
  • de-generated,
  • de-generate,
  • de generated.
  •decline (verb)
  • sub sided,
  • disimproves,
  • hits skids,
  • loses value,
  • going the dogs,
  • re turns,
  • re-lapsing,
  • re-cedes,
  • dis-improved,
  • dis-improving,
  • re lapsed,
  • re-ceded,
  • went the dogs,
  • went to pot,
  • go dogs,
  • re ceded,
  • going pot,
  • re-lapsed,
  • sub-siding,
  • losing value,
  • sub sides,
  • re cede,
  • retro-graded,
  • disimproving,
  • goes dogs,
  • retro graded,
  • re-turning,
  • sub siding,
  • sub-sided,
  • going to pot,
  • re-cede,
  • retro grades,
  • sub side,
  • went to dogs,
  • retro-grades,
  • hits the skids,
  • went dogs,
  • hitting skids,
  • goes to dogs,
  • goes the dogs,
  • re turning,
  • dis improved,
  • go pot,
  • re-turns,
  • Re-turn,
  • hitting the skids,
  • goes to pot,
  • go to dogs,
  • dis improving,
  • re-ceding,
  • re turn,
  • retro-grade,
  • disimproved,
  • going dogs,
  • went pot,
  • retro grading,
  • hit skids,
  • goes to the dogs,
  • goes pot,
  • sub-side,
  • dis improves,
  • go the dogs,
  • retro grade,
  • lost value,
  • sub-sides,
  • dis-improve,
  • re-turned,
  • re ceding,
  • re cedes,
  • dis improve,
  • going to dogs,
  • retro-grading,
  • went to the dogs,
  • dis-improves,
  • going to the dogs,
  • re lapsing.
  •decompose (verb)
  • de-composing,
  • de-compose,
  • de compose,
  • de-composes,
  • breaks down,
  • putresced,
  • brake down,
  • putresces,
  • de-composed,
  • de composed,
  • de composes,
  • broke down,
  • de composing.
  •decrease (verb)
  • re-strains,
  • de crease,
  • running low,
  • de-valuated,
  • de creasing,
  • re-strained,
  • de creases,
  • de valuate,
  • narrows down,
  • re strained,
  • slows down,
  • tailed off,
  • de-creasing,
  • de-valuate,
  • re strain,
  • de valuated,
  • lost edge,
  • narrowing down,
  • de-creases,
  • re straining,
  • slacks off,
  • re strains,
  • tails off,
  • narrowed down,
  • losing edge,
  • slowing down,
  • de creased,
  • de valuates,
  • de-creased,
  • dieing down,
  • runs low,
  • de valuating,
  • re-strain,
  • loses edge,
  • slacked off,
  • de-valuating,
  • dries up,
  • de-crease,
  • re-straining,
  • de-valuates.
  •depreciate (verb)
  • under-rating,
  • de cry,
  • devalorizes,
  • de cries,
  • de-presses,
  • de pressing,
  • de-valorizes,
  • writes down,
  • de valorized,
  • devalorized,
  • under-rates,
  • under-rated,
  • de cried,
  • under-rate,
  • de valorize,
  • de pressed,
  • under-valuing,
  • under rate,
  • de press,
  • de-valorizing,
  • under rated,
  • de-cried,
  • under-values,
  • de-cries,
  • de presses,
  • devalorizing,
  • de-pressing,
  • wrote down,
  • de-press,
  • under valuing,
  • under values,
  • de-valorize,
  • under rating,
  • de valorizes,
  • under value,
  • under valued,
  • writ down,
  • de valorizing,
  • under-valued,
  • de-pressed,
  • de-crying,
  • de-valorized,
  • under rates,
  • de-cry,
  • de crying,
  • under-value.
  •deteriorate (verb)
  • collapse,
  • retrogress,
  • regress,
  • tergiversate,
  • revert,
  • lapse,
  • deteriorate,
  • slip,
  • wilt,
  • wane,
  • slide,
  • downgrade,
  • get worse,
  • fade,
  • worsen,
  • moulder,
  • fall apart,
  • sink.
  •deteriorate, crumble (verb)
  • dissolve,
  • break up,
  • molder,
  • degenerate,
  • defile,
  • pejorate,
  • weaken,
  • reach depths,
  • waste away,
  • mortify,
  • discolor,
  • be impaired,
  • sicken,
  • pollute,
  • hit rock bottom,
  • dry-rot,
  • lessen,
  • become contaminated,
  • go to seed,
  • shrivel,
  • suppurate,
  • sap.
  •die (verb)
  • losing power,
  • dis-appears,
  • dis-appearing,
  • dis appears,
  • faded away,
  • fizzles out,
  • eases off,
  • dis-appeared,
  • went bad,
  • dis appeared,
  • dis appearing,
  • melted away,
  • fizzling out,
  • fizzled out,
  • ex-pire,
  • going bad,
  • ex pire,
  • faded out,
  • dis appear,
  • eased off,
  • dis-appear,
  • melts away,
  • fades out,
  • loses power,
  • melting away.
  •dirty (verb)
  • dis-colors,
  • be griming,
  • be grimes,
  • be soiling,
  • be-griming,
  • dis color,
  • dis colored,
  • be grime,
  • makes dusty,
  • dis coloring,
  • be-soiled,
  • be-grimed,
  • dis-colored,
  • be-soil,
  • besoils,
  • be-grimes,
  • made dusty,
  • dis colors,
  • be-grime,
  • be soils,
  • be soiled,
  • makes impure,
  • making dusty,
  • be soil,
  • besoiled,
  • disco loring,
  • disco-loring,
  • be grimed,
  • be-soils,
  • be-soiling,
  • made impure,
  • making impure,
  • dis-coloring,
  • besoiling,
  • dis-color.
  •disintegrate (verb)
  • dissect,
  • anatomize,
  • shatter,
  • break,
  • erode,
  • fracture,
  • rupture.
  •dwindle (verb)
  • becomes smaller,
  • grew less,
  • becoming smaller,
  • growing less,
  • dieing away,
  • dying away,
  • died away,
  • dies out,
  • awaying,
  • dieing out,
  • dies away,
  • dying out.
  •eat (verb)
  • runs through,
  • wastes away.
  •ebb (verb)
  • with-drawing,
  • retro ceding,
  • fell away,
  • re tiring,
  • re-treating,
  • flowed back,
  • retro cedes,
  • re-tiring,
  • retro cede,
  • re tired,
  • retro-ceding,
  • retro ceded,
  • with-drew,
  • with draws,
  • with drew,
  • re tire,
  • re-tires,
  • re tires,
  • with drawing,
  • retro-cedes,
  • with-draw,
  • with draw,
  • re-tire,
  • retro-cede,
  • re treating,
  • with drawn,
  • with-drawn,
  • re-treated,
  • retro-ceded.
  •peter (verb)
  • tailing away,
  • tails away,
  • re-bated,
  • re-bate,
  • tailed away,
  • re bating,
  • re bates,
  • re bate,
  • re bated,
  • re-bating.
  •slump (verb)
  • goes ruin,
  • went ruin,
  • goes to ruin,
  • went to ruin,
  • going to ruin,
  • caved in,
  • going ruin,
  • reaching new low,
  • go ruin,
  • reached new low,
  • reaches new low,
  • top pled.
  •stagnate (verb)
  • stood still,
  • lying fallow,
  • going to seed,
  • stands still,
  • goes seed,
  • went seed,
  • go seed,
  • went to seed,
  • not moves,
  • lay fallow,
  • lied fallow,
  • going seed,
  • lies fallow.
  •suppurate (verb)
  • dis-charges,
  • dis charging,
  • dis-charged,
  • dis-charge,
  • dis charges,
  • dis-charging,
  • dis charged,
  • dis charge.
  •taint (verb)
  • dis-crediting,
  • be smirching,
  • be smirches,
  • be-smirches,
  • casts a slur,
  • cruds up,
  • dis credit,
  • be smirch,
  • gives a bad name,
  • dis credited,
  • co oked,
  • casting a slur,
  • dis-credit,
  • casts slur,
  • crudding up,
  • casting slur,
  • gave bad name,
  • dis crediting,
  • cast slur,
  • be-smirching,
  • be-smirched,
  • gives bad name,
  • giving a bad name,
  • be-smirch,
  • co-oking,
  • dis-credits,
  • gave a bad name,
  • be smirched,
  • co-oked,
  • co oking,
  • give bad name,
  • giving bad name,
  • dis-credited,
  • crudded up,
  • dis credits.
  •turn (verb)
  • becoming rancid,
  • becomes rancid,
  • became rancid.
  •vegetate (verb)
  • wast inert,
  • was inert,
  • passes time,
  • passed time,
  • are inert,
  • art inert,
  • is inert,
  • were inert,
  • passing time,
  • being inert,
  • wert inert.
  •waste (verb)
  • trifles away,
  • mis-employs,
  • art no avail,
  • ran dry,
  • poured down drain,
  • mis-applied,
  • gambling away,
  • mis applies,
  • wast no avail,
  • mis employed,
  • pouring down drain,
  • frivolling away,
  • is of no avail,
  • misemployed,
  • mis-applying,
  • mis-employ,
  • mis employing,
  • mis-apply,
  • ate away,
  • goes waste,
  • art of no avail,
  • going to waste,
  • frivolled away,
  • was no avail,
  • being of no avail,
  • was of no avail,
  • goes to waste,
  • pour down drain,
  • misemploys,
  • trifling away,
  • went to waste,
  • misemploying,
  • burns up,
  • am of no avail,
  • poured down the drain,
  • frivoling away,
  • mis-employing,
  • be no avail,
  • burnt up,
  • mis apply,
  • runs dry,
  • wast of no avail,
  • being no avail,
  • gambles away,
  • went waste,
  • were no avail,
  • mis-applies,
  • mis applied,
  • pouring down the drain,
  • running dry,
  • frivols away,
  • were of no avail,
  • mis-employed,
  • am no avail,
  • trifled away,
  • gambled away,
  • wert of no avail,
  • wert no avail,
  • pours down drain,
  • go waste,
  • pours down the drain,
  • mis applying,
  • mis employ,
  • frivoled away,
  • going waste,
  • is no avail,
  • mis employs.
  •wear (verb)
  • was worthless,
  • over-used,
  • over-works,
  • over working,
  • is worthless,
  • wast worthless,
  • scraped off,
  • becoming worn,
  • scrapes off,
  • over worked,
  • over-worked,
  • being worthless,
  • wert worthless,
  • becomes threadbare,
  • uses up,
  • becomes worn,
  • over works,
  • becoming threadbare,
  • wears thin,
  • art worthless,
  • became worn,
  • are worthless,
  • am worthless,
  • were worthless,
  • over used,
  • scraping off,
  • over using,
  • over-using.
  •wither (verb)
  • became stale,
  • wizens,
  • wizening,
  • becoming stale,
  • becomes stale.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • carrion,
  • implosion,
  • fragmentation,
  • regression,
  • perish,
  • detriment,
  • corrosion,
  • putridness,
  • biodegrade,
  • wear and tear,
  • putrescence,
  • curdle,
  • dereliction,
  • degradation,
  • turn sour,
  • devastation,
  • depredation,
  • perversion.
  •
  • harm,
  • wreckage,
  • destruction,
  • demolition,
  • disuse,
  • damage,
  • corrode,
  • breakage,
  • breakdown,
  • detonation.
  •
  • alter,
  • sabotage,
  • aggravation,
  • mold,
  • fail.
  •
  • sour.
  •
  • toll,
  • ruin,
  • cost.
  •
  • ill.
  •
  • trail.
  •
  • burst,
  • get along.
  •consume
  • laying waste,
  • exhaust,
  • lays waste,
  • expend,
  • ravaged,
  • lay waste,
  • laid waste.
  •corruption
  • necrosis.
  •decline
  • seed.
  •decomposition
  • freshness,
  • spur,
  • emaciation,
  • sense,
  • mildew.
  •decrease
  • dried up,
  • run low,
  • dry up,
  • died down,
  • slowed down,
  • dying down,
  • peter,
  • slackens,
  • Downs,
  • downed,
  • ran low,
  • slack off,
  • dies down,
  • downing,
  • wear down,
  • slow down,
  • tail off,
  • narrow down,
  • lose edge,
  • slacking off,
  • die down,
  • drying up,
  • tailing off.
  •destroy
  • consume.
  •die
  • goes bad,
  • fade away,
  • easing off,
  • fades away,
  • fizzle out,
  • ease off,
  • fade out,
  • lose power,
  • lost power,
  • Dilapidating,
  • melt away,
  • dilapidates,
  • running out,
  • fading out.
  •dirty
  • make impure,
  • begrime,
  • Begriming,
  • encrusted,
  • Tarring,
  • Smutched,
  • Muddying,
  • Smutching,
  • smutch,
  • make dusty,
  • muddied,
  • tar,
  • blotching,
  • griming,
  • blotched,
  • Tars,
  • encrust,
  • Tarred,
  • begrimes,
  • muddies,
  • smoking,
  • encrusts,
  • besoil,
  • grimed,
  • begrimed,
  • encrusting.
  •disintegrate
  • washed away,
  • wash out,
  • falling to pieces,
  • turned to dust,
  • turn to dust,
  • took apart,
  • washing away,
  • break apart,
  • taking apart,
  • washes out,
  • washing out,
  • wash away,
  • coming apart,
  • fall to pieces,
  • take apart,
  • come apart,
  • washed out.
  •eat
  • wasted away,
  • eating,
  • eaten.
  •fester
  • ulcerated,
  • blistered,
  • ulcering,
  • ulcerate,
  • Ulcerating,
  • Ulcered,
  • ulcerates.
  •peter
  • tail away,
  • rebating,
  • peter out,
  • rebated.
  •rust
  • stales,
  • Staling,
  • Staled.
  •stagnate
  • hibernate,
  • not moving,
  • stand still,
  • standing still,
  • constipates,
  • constipate,
  • Idled,
  • not move,
  • constipating,
  • goes to seed,
  • lie fallow,
  • not moved.
  •waste
  • burning up,
  • Emaciating,
  • emaciates,
  • burned up,
  • eating away,
  • eats away,
  • trifle away,
  • Misapplied,
  • gamble away,
  • atrophying,
  • eat away,
  • frivol away,
  • burn up,
  • go to waste,
  • pour down the drain,
  • run dry,
  • atrophied,
  • be of no avail,
  • emaciate,
  • Misemploy.
  •wearing away
  • erosion.

Paraphrases for Decay:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    disintegration, decomposition.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    deterioration, rot.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    collapse, break-up, destruction, deactivation, breakup, devastation, downsizing, wane, downturn, erosion, regression, weakening, impairment, Weathering, mold, extinction.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    decadence, degradation, degeneration, breakdown, disrepair, decrease, cavity, Disaggregation, dieback, dissolution, descent.

Antonyms for Decay:

• n.

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

• 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.