Crossword-Solution: DECAYS
We have 18 clues for the answer “DECAYS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Rots away | 1 answer |
| Molds, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Loses magnetic flux | 1 answer |
| Crumbles from neglect | 1 answer |
| Goes radioactive? | 1 answer |
| Turns to compost | 2 answers |
| Turns into compost | 2 answers |
| Falls into ruin | 2 answers |
| Goes to pot | 2 answers |
| Goes to seed | 3 answers |
| Festers | 5 answers |
| Goes downhill | 8 answers |
| Rots | 8 answers |
| Goes bad | 11 answers |
| Breaks down | 12 answers |
| Compost ___ | 14 answers |
| Deteriorates | 15 answers |
| Spoils | 21 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DECAYS (5)
Earth’s might decays, the might of men decays, Honor grows cold, dishonor flourishes, There is no constancy ’twixt friend and friend, Or city and city; be it soon or late, Sweet turns to bitter, hate once more to love.
See Apt, Adept.] To make suitable; to fit, or suit; to adjust; to alter so as to fit for a new use; Ð sometimes followed by to or for.] For nature, always in the right, To your decays adapts my sight.
And the myrtle bloom turns hoary, And the blush of the rose decays, And sodden with sweat and gory Are the hard won laurels and bays; We are neither joyous nor sorry When time has ended our story, And blotted out grief and glory, And pain, and pleasure, and praise.
Things are not congruous and wear strange disguises: the consummate flower is fostered out of dung, and after nourishing itself awhile with heaven’s delicate distillations, decays again into indistinguishable soil; and with Cæsar’s ashes, Hamlet tells us, the urchins make dirt pies and filthily besmear their countenance.
There's many a big oak table and dresser in certain districts of England, which bear the marks of Giles's teeth; and I make no doubt that, a hundred or two years hence, there'll be strange stories about those marks, and that people will point them out as a proof that there were giants in bygone time, and that many a dentist will moralize on the decays which human teeth have undergone.
Quotes with DECAYS (3)
The youthful body untouched decays the fastest, for no living hands record its splendor; and here youth and time are wasted.
She was an echo masquerading as a shadow and she followed me just the same. The night and its moon were her favor while the sunrise and sunlight the daggers that sliced her to ribbons. She looked through half closed eyes at a blind world filled with wide eyes staring at walls. She felt pity with no care while around here steamed a burden too dense to bear. In the hours before dawn her tears slide to her jaw as a soft song escapes from between her cracked lips. A barbed song o…
It's possible, and I stress possible, that such a moment may never come: you may not fall in love, you may not be able to or you may not wish to give your whole life to anyone, and, like me, you may turn forty-five one day and realize that you're no longer young and you have never found a choir of cupids with lyres or a bed of white roses leading to the altar. The only revenge left for you then will be to steal from life the pleasure of firm and passionate flesh - a pleasure …
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 35 times in crossword archives (1970–2025).