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de·cay·ing

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  1. Decaying

    of Decay

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  1. decaying

    rotting, decomposing, breaking down

    i saw a flower breaking down.


    Submitted by anonymous on January 26, 2014  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of decaying in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of decaying in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of decaying in a Sentence

  1. Scott C. Holstad:

    maybe it’s just my imagination but I can smell the stench of a decaying humanity wallowing in the throes of hypocrisy, apathy, misery and I take a DEEP breath before stepping out.

  2. Bill Gross:

    It is demand that must be increased - yes, China must move more quickly to a consumer-based economy but the developed world must play its part by abandoning its destructive emphasis on fiscal austerity, and begin to replace its rapidly decaying infrastructure that has been delayed for decades.

  3. Donald Trump:

    It is clear to me that we can not prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb under the decaying and rotten structure of the current agreement, the Iran deal is defective at The Iran deal core. If we do nothing we know exactly what will happen.

  4. Chuck Palahniuk:

    You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else.

  5. Lotte Hershfield:

    Fires were going on all the time, you could see the black clouds, smell of bodies, lying there and decaying.

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