| 单词 | decay |
| 释义 | de·cay I. intransitive verb 1. a. archaic < families … decayed into the humble vale of life — Sir Walter Scott > b. < where wealth accumulates and men decay — Oliver Goldsmith > 2. < the voices … decayed and died out upon her ear — Thomas Hardy > 3. < the old house decayed from lack of repairs > 4. < a mind beginning to decay > 5. < fruit decays in the sun > transitive verb 1. obsolete < infirmity that decays the wise — Shakespeare > 2. < rain and sun decayed the building > Synonyms: < bruised apples decaying quickly > < decaying teeth > < with huge machines left to rust and decay — American Guide Series: Texas > < the Aztec regime and culture collapsed and the native crafts and arts decayed — R.W.Murray > decompose implies breaking down into components or dissolution through corruption < the strong odor of decomposing meat > < action of bacteria in decomposing the organic products — A.C.Morrison > < after slaying his colleague, he chemically decomposed the body — Leo Guild > rot, applied to animal or vegetable matter, indicates decaying with corruption, often with offensive foulness; otherwise it may indicate enervation or stagnation < fruit rotting in the baskets > < the rotting corpses of the Americans and British whom the French allowed to be massacred at Fort William Henry — Cleveland Amory > < it was this garrison life. Half civilian, half military, with all the drawbacks of both. It rotted the soul, robbed a man of ambition, faith — Irwin Shaw > putrefy may indicate noisome, extremely offensive, or nauseating rotting < putrefying cadavers > spoil is a less extreme word often used in reference to food to indicate a degree of decay that makes it uneatable < the lettuce will spoil if it is not refrigerated > disintegrate implies a separating of particles or a breaking apart that destroys the entity or integrity of the item in question < mortar disintegrating in the old chimney > < icebergs disintegrating in the warm water > < if we raise the temperature higher and higher, the metal itself finally disintegrates and becomes a gas — K.K.Darrow > < [the] Whig party disintegrated into its component elements — H.S.Commager > crumble implies a slow disintegration with a breaking and falling off of small particles < winter rains had washed and washed against its narrow, faded old bricks until the plaster between them had crumbled — Margaret Deland > < still visible, although the stockade itself has long since crumbled, are the outlines of the ancient earthworks — American Guide Series: Michigan > < Hood's army, crumbled in morale and depleted by wholesale desertion — American Guide Series: Tennessee > II. 1. a. < arts and letters had fallen into decay > b. < saw a rapid decay of moral principles > 2. a. < ancient temples fallen into complete decay > b. obsolete 3. obsolete < sullen presage of your own decay — Shakespeare > 4. obsolete < my love was my decay — Shakespeare > 5. a. b. < remove decay from a tooth > 6. a. archaic b. obsolete c. archaic 7. a. b. |
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