Word Meanings - EREMACAUSIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A gradual oxidation from exposure to air and moisture, as in the decay of old trees or of dead animals.

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• 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;
• MOISTURE
  1. A moderate degree of wetness. Bacon. 2. That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity. All my body's moisture Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heat. Shak.
• GRADUAL
  Proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive; slow; as, a gradual increase of knowledge; a gradual decline. Creatures animate with gradual life Of growth, sense,
• DECAYER
  A causer of decay.
• MOISTURELESS
  Without moisture.
• OXIDATION
  The act or process of oxidizing, or the state or result of being oxidized.
• GRADUALITY
  The state of being gradual; gradualness. Sir T. Browne.
• GRADUALLY
  1. In a gradual manner. 2. In degree. Human reason doth not only gradually, but specifically, differ from the fantastic reason of brutes. Grew.
• DECAYED
  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.
• GRADUALNESS
  The quality or state of being gradual; regular progression or gradation; slowness. The gradualness of this movement. M. Arnold. The gradualness of growth is a characteristic which strikes the simplest observer. H. Drummond.
• EXPOSURE
  The exposing of a sensitized plate to the action of light. (more info) 1. The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or contempt. The exposure of
• OVERMOISTURE
  Excess of moisture.
• PREDECAY
  Premature decay.
• PEROXIDATION
  Act, process, or result of peroxidizing; oxidation to a peroxide.
• INEXPOSURE
  A state of not being exposed.
• CROSSTREES
  Pieces of timber at a masthead, to which are attached the upper shrouds. At the head of lower masts in large vessels, they support a semicircular platform called the "top."
• DEOXIDATION
  The act or process of reducing from the state of an oxide.
• DISOXIDATION
  Deoxidation.
• SELF-EXPOSURE
  The act of exposing one's self; the state of being so exposed.