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decay verb addle, atrophy, be reduced in worth, beeome enfeebled, become lower in quality, become putressent, blight, break down, break up, canker, consume, corrode, corrupt, crumble, decline, decompose, decompound, depreciate, deteriorate, dilapidate, disintegrate, fade, fail, fall apart, fall to pieces, grow worse, languish, molder, render putrid, retrograde, retrogress, rot, ruin, shrivel, sink, spoil, waste away, wear away, wither, worsen See also: caducity, consumption, contaminate, corrupt, decline, degenerate, depreciate, deteriorate, deterioration, detriment, disintegrate, disrepair, dissolution, disuse, ebb, erode, erosion, impair, languish, prostration, spoil, spoilage, taint, wear and tear How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| From among any number of passages, Beecher himself selects the following, sententious conclusion as illustrative of the Overburian style of charactery: "to be brief with him, he is his own strength's enfeebler, his beauty's blemisher, his wit's blunder, his memory's decayer, and his appetite's abater--a toyish tobacconist" (49). |
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