Crossword-Solution: DECAY 5 letters, 149 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Decay v. i. To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect
state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste
away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated;
to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay; hopes decay.
Decay v. t. To cause to decay; to impair.
Decay v. t. To destroy.
Decay n. Gradual failure of health, strength, soundness, prosperity,
or of any species of excellence or perfection; tendency toward
dissolution or extinction; corruption; rottenness; decline;
deterioration; as, the decay of the body; the decay of virtue; the
decay of the Roman empire; a castle in decay.
Decay n. Destruction; death.
Decay n. Cause of decay.

We have 149 clues for the answer “DECAY”

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"Change and ___ in all around I see . . . " 1 answer
Become unstable, as an orbit 1 answer
Canine's woe? 1 answer
Cause of radioactivity 1 answer
Cavity cause 1 answer
Crumble away, and a phonetic hint to six answers in this puzzle 1 answer
Dental damage 1 answer
Dentist's concern, and a hint to what the longest answers have in common 1 answer
Dentist's detection 1 answer
Dentist's discovery 1 answer
Druxiness 1 answer
Emulate a compost pile 1 answer
Exhibit radioactivity 1 answer
Exponential ___ (function in physics) 1 answer
Fall into ruin 1 answer
Fall into ruins 1 answer
Get on with one's half-life? 1 answer
Go bad, as teeth 1 answer
Go on with one's half-life? 1 answer
Go to pot ... or a phonetic hint to the answers to starred clues 1 answer
Gradual failure. 1 answer
Gradually become ruined 1 answer
Radioactive action 1 answer
Radioactive process 1 answer
Radioactivity action 1 answer
Radioactivity, essentially 1 answer
Radioisotope activity 1 answer
Radium activity 1 answer
Reason to drill 1 answer
Rotting process 1 answer
Termite result. 1 answer
Tooth __ (dentist's concern) 1 answer
Tooth concern 1 answer
Tooth nemesis 1 answer
Urban ___ (cosmetics brand) 1 answer
Rot or decline over time 1 answer
X-ray disclosure 1 answer
dry rot 1 answer
to rot decompose 1 answer
*Caries? 2 answers
Progressive decline 2 answers
Become compost 2 answers
Canine problem 2 answers
Crumble away 2 answers
Turn into compost 2 answers
Turn to compost 2 answers
Tooth Trouble 3 answers
Dental woe 3 answers
Wasting 3 answers
downward course 4 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
ARAE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with DECAY (5)

There are zigzag lines on it, just like your temperature on a card, and these are probably roads in the island, for the Neverland is always more or less an island, with astonishing splashes of colour here and there, and coral reefs and rakish-looking craft in the offing, and savages and lonely lairs, and gnomes who are mostly tailors, and caves through which a river runs, and princes with six elder brothers, and a hut fast going to decay, and one very small old lady with a hooked nose.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
For even had it been some child of mine, Or husband mouldering in death’s decay, I had not wrought this deed despite the State.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000
Weight, solidity, firmness—this was the expression of his repose, even in such decay as had crept untimely over him at the period of which I speak.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
And I shall have to tell you later that even the processes of putrefaction and decay had been profoundly affected by these changes.
The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1992
Across the pit on its farther lip, flat and vast and strange, lay the great flying-machine with which they had been experimenting upon our denser atmosphere when decay and death arrested them.
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992

Quotes with DECAY (3)

I feel about Photoshop the way some people feel about abortion. It is appalling and a tragic reflection on the moral decay of our society…unless I need it, in which case, everybody be cool.
Tina Fey
When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this world, with all the things that are in it, with all its defects, should be the best that omnipotence and omniscience have been able to produce in millions of years. I really cannot believe it. Do you think that, if you were granted omnipotence and omniscience and millions of years in which to perfect your world, you could produce nothing better than the Ku Kl…
Bertrand Russell
When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.
Gautama Buddha
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 120 times in crossword archives (1952–2024).