Word Meanings - DECAYED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Fallen, as to physical or social condition; affected with decay; rotten; as, decayed vegetation or vegetables; a decayed fortune or gentleman. -- De*cay"ed*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DECAYED)

• Corrupt
• Defiled
• polluted
• vitiated
• decayed
• depraved
• putrid
• rotten
• infected
• tainted
• profligate
• contaminated
• Putrid
• Stinking
• corrupt
• offensive
• decomposed
• foul
• mean
• base
• worthless

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DECAYED)

• Mend
• repair
• purify
• cleanse
• correct
• ameliorate
• better

Related words: (words related to DECAYED)

• DECAY
  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;
• PURIFY
  1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• VITIATE
  1. To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air. A will vitiated and growth out
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• STINKWEED
  Stramonium. See Jamestown weed, and Datura.
• INFECTIOUSLY
  In an infectious manner. Shak.
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
• STINKARD
  The teledu of the East Indies. It emits a disagreeable odor. (more info) 1. A mean, stinking, paltry fellow. B. Jonson.
• DEFILADE
  To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior works commanded from some higher point.
• STINKPOT
  The musk turtle, or musk tortoise. See under Musk. (more info) 1. An earthen jar charged with powder, grenades, and other materials of an offensive and suffocating smell, -- sometimes used in boarding an enemy's vessel. 2. A vessel in
• OFFENSIVE
  1. Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words. 2. Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; revolting; noxious; as, an offensive smell; offensive sounds. "Offensive to the stomach."
• INFECTIVE
  Infectious. Beau. & Fl. True love . . . hath an infective power. Sir P. Sidney.
• CORRECTORY
  Containing or making correction; corrective.
• POLLUTE
  To render ceremonially unclean; to disqualify or unfit for sacred use or service, or for social intercourse. Neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die. Num. xviii. 32. They have polluted themselves with blood.
• DECOMPOSITION
  1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of
• PUTRID
  or putris, rotten, fr. putere to stink, to be rotten: cf. F. putride. 1. Tending to decomposition or decay; decomposed; rotten; -- said of animal or vegetable matter; as, putrid flesh. See Putrefaction. 2. Indicating or proceeding from a decayed
• TAINTWORM
  A destructive parasitic worm or insect larva.
• CORRECTIFY
  To correct. When your worship's plassed to correctify a lady. Beau & Fl.
• INDECOMPOSABLENESS
  Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
• REINFECT
  To infect again.
• DISINFECT
  To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous. When the infectious matter and the infectious matter and the odoriferous matter are one . . . then to deodorize is to disinfect. Ure.
• INCORRECT
  1. Not correct; not according to a copy or model, or to established rules; inaccurate; faulty. The piece, you think, is incorrect. Pope. 2. Not in accordance with the truth; inaccurate; not exact; as, an incorrect statement or calculation. 3. Not
• UNCORRUPTIBLE
  Incorruptible. "The glory of the uncorruptible God." Rom. i.