Decayed

Definitions: Decayed

Decayed

Adjective

1. Deteriorated by decay or rot; "decayed teeth".

2. Damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless; "rotten floor boards"; "rotted beams"; "a decayed foundation".

Date "decayed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonyms: Decayed

Synonyms: rotted (adj), rotten (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Adversity	Adjective: unfortunate, unblest, unhappy, unlucky; improsperous, unprosperous; hoodooed; luckless, hapless; out of luck; in trouble, in a bad way, in an evil plight; under a cloud; clouded; ill off, badly off; in adverse circumstances; poor; behindhand, down in the world, decayed, undone; on the road to ruin, on its last legs, on the wane; in one's utmost need.
Deterioration	Decayed; Verb: moth-eaten, worm-eaten; mildewed, rusty, moldy, spotted, seedy, time-worn, moss-grown; discolored; effete, wasted, crumbling, moldering, rotten, cankered, blighted, tainted; depraved; (vicious); decrepid, decrepit; broke, busted, broken, out of commission, hors de combat, out of action, broken down; done, done for, done up; worn out, used up, finished; beyond saving, fit for the dust hole, fit for the wastepaper basket, past work; (useless).
Disease	Weakly, weakened; (weak); decrepit; decayed; (deteriorated); incurable; (hopeless); in declining health; cranky; in a bad way, in danger, prostrate; moribund; (death).
Uncleanness	Decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty; putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied; saprogenic, saprogenous; purulent, carious, peccant; fecal, feculent; stercoraceous, excrementitious; scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous; gory, bloody; rotting; Verb: rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese.
Weakness	Languid, poor, infirm; faint, faintish; sickly; (disease); dull, slack, evanid, spent, short-winded, effete; weather-beaten; decayed, rotten, worn, seedy, languishing, wasted, washy, laid low, pulled down, the worse for wear.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

The blade had a vitalizing effect on me. My physical energy no longer decayed over time and the wounds inflicted by my enemies healed almost instantly. (Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver II; writing credit: Amy Hennig)

Transform this decayed form to Mumm-Ra, the ever living. (Thundercats; writing credit: Annabelle Gurwitch; Heather M. Winters)

Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables. (The Phantom Tollbooth; writing credit: Chuck Jones; Norton Juster)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	A restitution of decayed intelligence (reference) Decayed Gods: Origin and Development of Georges Dumezil's 'Ideologie Tripartie' (Studies in Greek and Roman Religion, Vol 7) (reference) Decayed, missing, and filled teeth among youths 12-17 years (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Sonic Decayed [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Having sealants put on healthy teeth now will save you money in the long run by avoiding fillings, crowns, or caps used to fix decayed teeth. (references)
Business		The average number of decayed, missing or filled teeth in deciduous (primary) teeth for children 5-10 years of age declined significantly from 1989-1996. Disease experience in permanent dentition (adult teeth) in this age group has also declined. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	SOUL, n. A spiritual entity concerning which there hath been brave disputation. Plato held that those souls which in a previous state of existence (antedating Athens) had obtained the clearest glimpses of eternal truth entered into the bodies of persons who became philosophers. Plato himself was a philosopher. The souls that had least contemplated divine truth animated the bodies of usurpers and despots. Dionysius I, who had threatened to decapitate the broad- browed philosopher, was a usurper and a despot. Plato, doubtless, was not the first to construct a system of philosophy that could be quoted against his enemies; certainly he was not the last. "Concerning the nature of the soul," saith the renowned author of Diversiones Sanctorum, "there hath been hardly more argument than that of its place in the body. Mine own belief is that the soul hath her seat in the abdomen -- in which faith we may discern and interpret a truth hitherto unintelligible, namely that the glutton is of all men most devout. He is said in the Scripture to 'make a god of his belly' -- why, then, should he not be pious, having ever his Deity with him to freshen his faith? Who so well as he can know the might and majesty that he shrines? Truly and soberly, the soul and the stomach are one Divine Entity; and such was the belief of Promasius, who nevertheless erred in denying it immortality. He had observed that its visible and material substance failed and decayed with the rest of the body after death, but of its immaterial essence he knew nothing. This is what we call the Appetite, and it survives the wreck and reek of mortality, to be rewarded or punished in another world, according to what it hath demanded in the flesh. The Appetite whose coarse clamoring was for the unwholesome viands of the general market and the public refectory shall be cast into eternal famine, whilst that which firmly through civilly insisted on ortolans, caviare, terrapin, anchovies, pates de foie gras and all such Christian comestibles shall flesh its spiritual tooth in the souls of them forever and ever, and wreak its divine thirst upon the immortal parts of the rarest and richest wines ever quaffed here below. Such is my religious faith, though I grieve to confess that neither His Holiness the Pope nor His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury (whom I equally and profoundly revere) will assent to its dissemination."
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
James Buchanan	1857-1861	Public virtue is the vital spirit of republics, and history proves that when this has decayed and the love of money has usurped its place, although the forms of free government may remain for a season, the substance has departed forever.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Decayed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 45.87% of the time. "Decayed" is used about 109 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	45.87%	50	48,117
Lexical Verb (past participle)	32.11%	35	58,339
Lexical Verb (past tense)	20.18%	22	74,468
Noun (proper)	1.83%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	109	N/A

Expressions using "decayed": be decayed ♦ become decayed ♦ decayed tooth. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "decayed": half-decayed, long-decayed, semi-decayed.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "decayed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		aftands (decrepit, dilapidated, lapsed, rickety), aftandig (decrepit, dilapidated, lapsed, rickety). (various references)

Albanian		i prishur (addle, addled, annulled, broken, corrupt, depraved, disconcerted, flyblown, godforsaken, haywire, high, perverted, putrid, rancid, rot, rotten, sour, spoilt, tainted, turned, unsound), i kalbur (carious, carrion, corrupt, putrid, rotten, rotting, saprogenic, saprogenous, tainted, unsound). (various references)

Arabic		‏فاسد (abusive, bad, corrupt, decadent, decomposed, degenerated, depraved, disintegrated, evil, false, foul, immoral, incorrect, infected, invalid, null, perverse, pervertible, putrid, rogue, rotten, spoiled, unsound, vain, vicious, void, wicked, wrong), ‏متضعضع (declining). (various references)

Bulgarian		разложен (putrid), гнил (bad, putrid, rotten, tindery), западнал (broken down, distressed, run down). (various references)

Chinese		腐朽 (decadent, degenerate, rotten). (various references)

Czech		zkažený (bad, corrupt, debauched, high, perverted, putrid, rotten, ruined, spoilt, stale, wicked), vykotlaný, vyžraný, trouchnivý, práchnivý. (various references)

Danish		DF (decayed and filled permanent teeth), raadden knast (decayed knot), metode baseret paa daempede sinusformede jordbevaegelser (decayed sinusoidal ground motion method), frønnet træ (decayed wood), carieret og fyldt (decayed and filled permanent teeth). (various references)

Dutch		gammel (decrepit, dilapidated, lapsed, rickety), bouwvallig (decrepit, dilapidated, lapsed, rickety), aftands (decrepit, dilapidated, lapsed, rickety). (various references)

Esperanto		kaduka (decrepit, dilapidated, lapsed, rickety). (various references)

Faeroese		skirvisligur (decrepit, dilapidated, lapsed, rickety), ússaligur (decrepit, dilapidated, lapsed, rickety). (various references)

Finnish		raihnas (decrepit, dilapidated, lapsed, rickety). (various references)

French		caduc (deciduous, decrepit). (various references)

Frisian		útwikelse (decrepit, dilapidated, lapsed, rickety), útlibbe (decrepit, dilapidated, lapsed, rickety). (various references)

German		verfiel, verfallene. (various references)

Greek		τερηδονισμένοι,ελλείποντες ή σφραγισμένοι οδόντες (DMF index, missing or filled teeth, missing or filled teeth index), δείκτης CAO (DMF index, missing or filled teeth index). (various references)

Hebrew		ממוקמק (rotten), רקוב (putrid, rancid, rotten, septic). (various references)

Hungarian		lesüllyedt. (various references)

Indonesian		perbusukan, buruk (bad, corrupt, dissonant, foul, nasty, old, putrid, ugly, worn out). (various references)

Italian		decrepito (decrepit, dilapidated, lapsed, ramshackle, rickety, worn out). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		朽ち葉 (decayed leaves). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		くちば (decayed leaves), くちき (decayed tree), うし (caries, cattle, cavity, cow, decayed tooth, second sign of Chinese zodiac, tooth decay), むしくいば (a decayed tooth), むしば (caries, cavity, decayed tooth, tooth decay). (various references)

Korean		부패하�" (stale). (various references)

Manx		loau (bad, bad as meat, carious, corrupt, foul, gangrenous, putrefactive, putrescent, putrid, rotted, rotten, stagnate, stale), fiojit (faded, perished, washed-out, washed-out colour, withered), fioghit (blighted, decadent, faded, withered, wizened), creen (diminutive, ripe, sapless, trifling, withered). (various references)

Pig Latin		ecayedday.(various references)

Portuguese		decrépito (crazy, decrepit, dilapidated, Gage, lapsed, ramshackle, rickety, worn out), frágil (brash, breakable, brittle, dainty, decrepit, delicate, dilapidated, fragile, frail, friable, lapsed, pasteboard, rickety, sleazy, tender, weak, weakly, well-made), caduco (caducous, deciduous, decrepit, dilapidated, effete, expiry, fugacious, impoverished, lapsed, lapsus, rickety), índice CPO (DMF index, missing or filled teeth index). (various references)

Romanian		decãzut (corrupt, debased, degenerate, low down, ruinous), stricat (addle, bad, broken, broken down, carrion, close, corrupt, corrupted, dead, defaced, depraved, deteriorated, dilapidated, disabled, diseased, dissolute, foul, fusty, graceless, immoral, injured, loose, meretricious, niffy, out of order, perverse, polluted, rakehelly, rotten, spoilt, stuffy, tainted, vicious, vitiated). (various references)

Russian		обветшалый (tumbledown, tumble-down). (various references)

Scottish		arc (fungus on decayed wood). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pokojni (deceased, departed, late: of late), istruleo (over-rotten). (various references)

Spanish		decrépito (decrepit, dilapidated, feeble, infirm, lapsed, rickety, weak, worn out). (various references)

Swedish		förfallen (decadent, derelict, dilapidated, invalid, lapsed, mature, overdue, ruined, tumbledown). (various references)

Turkish		dumura uğramış (atrophied, rudimental, rudimentary), dağılmış (diffuse, dissipated, effuse, scattered, spread, tapped, untidy), düşkün (addict, addicted, affected, almsman, devotee, doting, down at heels, fallen, fallen on hard times, fond, given to, jealous, jealous of, keen, keen on, partial, poor, sharp-set), zayıflamış (emaciated, faded), takâtsiz (exhausted, strengthless), halsiz düşmüş (run down, tired out, tired to death), aşınmış (beaten, detrited), çürümüş (black and blue, blue, carious, decomposed, putrefacient, putrefactive, rotten, went bad), çürük (bad, bruise, carious, cavity, contusion, decay, dicky, draft-exempt, dry rot, feeble, flimsy, putrefacient, putrefactive, putrid, rickety, rocky, rotten, sleazy, tooth decay, unsound, wonky). (various references)

Welsh		methiannus (failing), amharus, adfeiliedig (in ruins). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	cariosus, puter, putrida, putridum, putridus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Nehemiah Chapter 4, Verse 10
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Kai oi kataloipoi eqnwn wn apwkisen asennafar o megaV kai o timioV kai katwkisen autouV en polesin thV somorwn kai to kataloipon peran tou potamou
Latin	405	Vulgate	Dixit autem Iudas debilitata est fortitudo portantis et humus nimia est et nos non poterimus aedificare murum
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And Judah said, The strength of the workmen is giving way, and there is much waste material; it is impossible for us to put up the wall.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Nehemiah Chapter 4, Verse 10
Bulgarian	Но Юда рече: Силата на бременосците вече ослабна, а пръстта е много; ние не можем да градим стената.
Cebuano	Ug si Juda miingon: Ang kusog sa magdadala sa mga mabug-at nangaluya, ug may daghang sagbut; mao nga kita dili makahimo sa pagtukod sa kuta.
Chinese	猶大人說、灰土尚多、扛抬的人力氣已 �" 衰敗、所以我們不能建 � 城牆。
Croatian	Ali je od toga dana samo polovica mojih momaka obavljala posao, a ostali su držali koplja, štitove, lukove i oklope, a glavari stajali iza doma Judina,
Danish	Men Jøderne sagde: Lastdragernes Kræfter svigter, og Grusdyngerne er for store; vi kan ikke bygge på Muren!
Dutch	Toen zeide Juda: De kracht der dragers is vervallen, en des stofs is veel, zodat wij aan den muur niet zullen kunnen bouwen.
Finnish	Mutta Juuda sanoi: "Taakankantajain voima raukeaa, ja soraa on ylen paljon; me emme jaksa rakentaa muuria".
French	Cependant Juda disait: Les forces manquent � ceux qui portent les fardeaux, et les décombres sont considérables; nous ne pourrons pas bâtir la muraille.
German	Und Juda sprach: Die Kraft der Träger ist zu schwach, und des Schuttes ist zu viel; wir können nicht an der Mauer bauen.
Haitian Creole	Men, moun peyi Jida yo t'ap plede di: -Nou fin fèb nan pote chay! Gen twòp vye ranblè pou n' netwaye! Nou p'ap janm fin rebati miray sa a!
Hungarian	És mondák a zsidók: Fogytán van ereje a tereh-hordónak, a rom pedig sok, és mi képtelenek vagyunk építeni a kõfalat.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Tetapi orang Yehuda mulai menyanyikan lagu keluhan ini: "Tenaga kita habis untuk mengangkut muatan, sedangkan sampah masih banyak bertumpukan. Tak sanggup rasanya kita bekerja begini membangun tembok kota ini."
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Maka kata orang Yehuda: Bahwa kuat orang penggandar itu surutlah dan adalah lagi amat banyak kerobohan batu; maka tiada kami dapat menyudahkan pagar tembok itu.
Italian	Da quel giorno la met� dei miei giovani lavorava e l'altra met� stava armata di lance, di scudi, di archi, di corazze; i capi erano dietro tutta la casa di Giuda.
Korean	� 다 사 람 �"� 은 이 르 기 를 ` 흙 무 �" 기 가 아 직 도 많 거 늘 담 부 하 �" 자 의 힘 이 � 하 였 으 니 우 리 가 성 을 건 축 하 지 못 하 리 라' 하 �
Maori	Na ka mea a Hura, Kua hemo te kaha o nga kaipikau, e nui ana hoki te paru; na e kore matou e kaha ki te hanga i te taiepa.
Modern Greek	Και ειπεν ο Ιουδας, Η δυναμις των εργατων ητονησε, και το χωμα ειναι πολυ, και ημεις δεν δυναμεθα να οικοδομωμεν το τειχος.
Norwegian	Da sa jødene: Bærernes kraft svikter, og grushaugene er for store; vi makter ikke lenger å bygge på muren.
Portuguese	Então disse Judá: Desfalecem as forças dos carregadores, e há muito escombro; não poderemos edificar o muro.
Rumanian	Knsq Iuda zicea: ,,Puterile celor ce duc poverile slqbesc, wi dqrkmqturile sknt multe; nu vom putea sq zidim zidul.``
Russian	оП йХ�"ЕЙ УЛБЪБМЙ: ПУМБ�'ЕМБ УЙМБ Х ОПУЙМШЭЙЛПЧ, Б НХУПТХ НОПЗП; НЩ ОЕ Ч УПУФПСОЙЙ УФТПЙФШ УФЕОХ.
Spanish	Pero los de Judá dijeron: --Las fuerzas de los acarreadores se han debilitado, y los escombros son muchos. Nosotros no podremos reedificar la muralla.
Swedish	Men judarna sade: "Bärarnas kraft sviker, och gruset är alltför mycket; vi förmå icke mer att bygga på muren."
Thai	แต่ยู�"าห์กล่าวว่า "เรี่ยวแรงของคนที่ขนของก็กำลังทรุ�"ลง และมีสิ่งสลักหักพังมาก เราไม่สามารถสร้างกำแพงไ�"้"
Ukrainian	(4-4) І сказав Юда: Ослабла сила носія, а звалищ багато, і ми не зможемо далі будувати мура!...
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings
	"Decayed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Deacey, decafed, decage, decape, decaped, decased, decated, Decatex, deceide, deejayed, Deshayes, Dunayev. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "decayed" (pronounced dukā"d)
3	-k ā" d	arcade, blockade, brocade, Cade, cascade, decade, okayed.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-d-e-e-y"
	-1 letter: decade.
	-2 letters: caddy, ceded, decay, deedy.
	-3 letters: aced, cade, cede, dace, dead, deed, dyad, dyed, eddy, eyed.
	-4 letters: ace, add, aye, cad, cay, cee, dad, day, dee, dey, dye, eye, yea.
	-5 letters: ad, ae, ay, de, ed, ya, ye.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-d-e-e-y"
	+2 letters: decadency.
	+3 letters: decadently, detachedly.
	+4 letters: dedicatedly.
	+5 letters: acetaldehyde.
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