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decaying - definition and meaning
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verb decay .
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decay + -ing
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In her forthcoming term, she plans to help open up France to private medicine, in an effort to offset what she calls a decaying public sector.
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He pressed Egyptians to peacefully bring down what he called a decaying regime and threatened
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But, as noted, there may be some great opportunities in decaying suburbs, if you know how to make opportunity work for you. serial catowner Says:
Matthew Yglesias » By Request: Crime and Recession 2009
America is decaying from the inside out, we need a better CLASS of Americans. lyn
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But Ngurn's father, wrapped in decaying grass-matting and hanging even then over their heads among the smoky rafters of the devil-devil house, had held otherwise.
THE RED ONE 2010
Our first pooch, Stinko (she earned the name by routinely rolling around in decaying organic matter), would cower and shake in the back of the car.
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Not cartoony ugly, like Basil Wolverton, but blotchy and smelly and decaying from the inside out.
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The Bird Cage theater, crumbling, dusty, and decaying , is the Old West.
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I even bought a house in decaying Yorkville as a wedding present for the girl I was courting, that is, was courting over thirty years ago.
What Is Wrong with Loving Canada? 1983
But Ngurn's father, wrapped in decaying grass-matting and hanging even then over their heads among the smoky rafters of the devil-devil house, had held otherwise.
The Red One 1918
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