What are the antonyms for DECAY?
- combine, Rejuvenescence, rehabilitation, morality, enlarge, build, ripening, expand, growth, improvement, strengthening, ascend, strengthen, extend, prosper, strength, develop, comeback, invigoration, snapback, building, ripen, development, flourish, brighten, construction, rise, recuperation, improve, raise, increase, germination, recovery, rally, grow, rejuvenation, unite, put together, help, color, revitalization, germinate, make well, ascent.
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Synonyms for DECAY
- perversion,
- curdle,
- outed,
- decrepitude,
- regress,
- goes to seed,
- noxiousness,
- impairment,
- ill-treat,
- unwellness,
- witherings,
- fungus,
- crud up,
- waning,
- Trashed,
- blistered,
- ulcerate,
- Dilapidating,
- dying down,
- croppers,
- Muddying,
- flows back,
- junk,
- become rancid,
- spiral,
- encrusts,
- suppurate,
- pratfalls,
- grimed,
- decline,
- retrenchment,
- lapse,
- die away,
- etch,
- consumption,
- downgrade,
- died down,
- downfall,
- bruise,
- hit rock bottom,
- tail away,
- mildew,
- erode,
- dulls,
- infirmity,
- inadequacy,
- run low,
- falling away,
- eat into,
- decompose,
- rot,
- become contaminated,
- go down,
- emaciates,
- burning up,
- go out,
- disintegration,
- dissolution,
- diminution,
- not moved,
- sink,
- putrescing,
- molder,
- Misapplied,
- havoc,
- Ulcered,
- cast a slur,
- fading,
- goes out,
- washing away,
- loser,
- warp,
- losses,
- tailing off,
- moulder,
- detritus,
- wasting,
- anatomize,
- retrogression,
- rotting,
- sour,
- encrust,
- downed,
- tapers,
- lose power,
- degeneracy,
- blight,
- grubbiness,
- rebating,
- better,
- seed,
- mark down,
- disuse,
- alter,
- become worn,
- residue,
- Sybaritism,
- ebbings,
- laying waste,
- wear thin,
- malignance,
- despoilment,
- slip into,
- Smutching,
- stales,
- slacking off,
- make impure,
- Illtreat,
- overuse,
- fade out,
- dies down,
- low tide,
- slump,
- stand still,
- wear out,
- be worthless,
- pollution,
- grows less,
- Vegetated,
- aways,
- remnant,
- putrefaction,
- gamble away,
- waste,
- slow down,
- erosion,
- hit the skids,
- thrive,
- dry-rot,
- lose value,
- damage,
- wilt,
- went downhill,
- destruction,
- shrivel,
- fall back,
- escalate,
- ruination,
- caves in,
- lie fallow,
- flowing back,
- wearing thin,
- shatter,
- biodegrade,
- deepen,
- OUTS,
- vulgarism,
- slack off,
- demolition,
- fizzle out,
- Begriming,
- wear down,
- undervalued,
- Diseasedness,
- go to ruin,
- decadency,
- eating,
- slide,
- unsubstantiality,
- rottenness,
- blister,
- putrescence,
- blot on the landscape,
- wears away,
- Crumbling,
- infestation,
- eat,
- weakliness,
- ate into,
- run dry,
- became smaller,
- standing still,
- falling to pieces,
- putridities,
- ravaged,
- regression,
- wearing away,
- pejorate,
- reach new low,
- chaff,
- collapse,
- insubstantiality,
- smoking,
- wreckage,
- failure,
- sockets,
- laid waste,
- gluttony,
- effluent,
- perish,
- wash out,
- Filings,
- corruption,
- griminess,
- oxidations,
- begrimed,
- going downhill,
- downing,
- slackening,
- falsification,
- deterioration,
- wear and tear,
- devolution,
- Non-feasance,
- Unhealth,
- uncleanliness,
- fail,
- mortification,
- turn sour,
- sabotage,
- begrimes,
- the ravages of something,
- cropper,
- failing,
- become threadbare,
- ran low,
- use up,
- die down,
- necrosis,
- detriment,
- washed away,
- go to,
- putridity,
- Idled,
- toll,
- sinkings,
- coming apart,
- wither,
- go to pot,
- Disimprove,
- frivol away,
- ulcering,
- exhaust,
- ulcerated,
- Emaciating,
- disbandment,
- cost,
- weaken,
- spoliation,
- waste away,
- burnout,
- using up,
- dilapidate,
- putrefy,
- low water,
- corrode,
- detonation,
- narrow down,
- overuses,
- over-wrought,
- die,
- adulteration,
- besoil,
- senescence,
- unsuccessfulness,
- Perishing,
- trail,
- Dejecta,
- flow back,
- atrophying,
- seediness,
- radioactive decay,
- chaos,
- rupture,
- sicken,
- atrophy,
- extinction,
- easing off,
- go downhill,
- lays waste,
- pass time,
- Poisonings,
- rust,
- sensuality,
- tergiversate,
- bursa,
- the end,
- infestations,
- slowed down,
- disrepair,
- eating away,
- begrime,
- nonsuccess,
- fade,
- writing down,
- Sank,
- burst,
- crackup,
- aggravation,
- not moving,
- tar,
- slip,
- crackups,
- encrusted,
- dying,
- petering out,
- consume,
- go to waste,
- dwindle,
- mold,
- squalor,
- blot on landscape,
- take apart,
- Non-performance,
- retrogrades,
- Tarring,
- became threadbare,
- pratfall,
- ease off,
- encrusting,
- be inert,
- gangrene,
- falsifications,
- chip,
- dissolve,
- retreating,
- Waned,
- debris,
- Lubricity,
- blemish,
- turn,
- dirty,
- turn to dust,
- vice,
- melt away,
- slackens,
- withering,
- mortify,
- drying up,
- die out,
- spoilage,
- lubricities,
- spoil,
- Funguses,
- washout,
- Refluence,
- go to the dogs,
- Putresce,
- give a bad name,
- atrophied,
- fiasco,
- rebated,
- backflow,
- atomization,
- Gluttonies,
- nonperformance,
- stagnate,
- powdered,
- break down,
- go bad,
- Retrograding,
- Dulling,
- recede,
- wear,
- decomposition,
- Smutched,
- puniness,
- muddied,
- degradation,
- Tarred,
- dissection,
- bite,
- depreciation,
- caries,
- state,
- peter out,
- on the skids,
- lemon,
- go to seed,
- ulcerates,
- Misemploy,
- scrape off,
- spoliations,
- disbandments,
- wear away,
- dried up,
- grind,
- looseness,
- slop,
- eat away,
- cavity,
- come apart,
- socket,
- glitch up,
- Perished,
- offal,
- harm,
- tail off,
- depreciate,
- constipating,
- washed out,
- muddies,
- fades away,
- reach depths,
- Retrocession,
- failings,
- pollute,
- retroflux,
- dry up,
- outward flow,
- lessen,
- washing out,
- wasted away,
- relapse,
- oxidation,
- fragmentation,
- emaciate,
- Crumbed,
- write down,
- burn,
- defile,
- fall away,
- ebb,
- goes bad,
- fracture,
- marked down,
- lost power,
- retrenchments,
- vegetate,
- make dusty,
- dilapidation,
- faux pas,
- decrease,
- infect,
- trifle away,
- hibernate,
- maltreat,
- fading out,
- curdling,
- wasting away,
- deteriorate,
- revert,
- curdled,
- taint,
- devalorize,
- breakdown,
- blotching,
- Downs,
- taking apart,
- nonfeasance,
- died out,
- grease palm,
- sinking ship,
- fungi,
- devastation,
- breaking down,
- Crumbing,
- radioactivation,
- maleficence,
- retrogress,
- Unsuccess,
- ruin,
- rubbish,
- grunginess,
- gaps,
- dilapidates,
- become smaller,
- Bursae,
- fade away,
- turned to dust,
- break apart,
- washes out,
- Retrograded,
- degeneration,
- fading away,
- worsen,
- Ulcerating,
- decadence,
- burn up,
- crumble,
- liquefaction,
- fall to pieces,
- insolvency,
- unsoundness,
- not move,
- constipates,
- Tars,
- get along,
- marks down,
- disintegrate,
- wizen,
- Staled,
- burnings,
- blotched,
- reflux,
- discolor,
- garbage,
- Defunction,
- decay,
- peter,
- descend into,
- smutch,
- break,
- corrosion,
- go off,
- reduction,
- health,
- leakage,
- overusing,
- griming,
- dissect,
- break up,
- Staling,
- mar,
- dereliction,
- pour down the drain,
- marking down,
- cave in,
- lead balloon,
- fester,
- breakage,
- burned up,
- total loss,
- depredation,
- wore thin,
- be of no avail,
- goes downhill,
- glitched up,
- eats away,
- degenerate,
- rotted,
- lay waste,
- eaten,
- constipate,
- flu,
- sap,
- used up,
- grow less,
- ill,
- unhealthiness,
- corrupt,
- be impaired,
- refuse,
- took apart,
- ill health,
- expend,
- underrated,
- implosion,
- become stale,
- falls away,
- get worse,
- caving in,
- delapidate,
- putridness,
- wane,
- carrion,
- non-success,
- lose edge,
- Sickliness,
- fall apart,
- wash away,
- spoilation,
- running out,
- contamination.
Usage Examples for DECAY
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With these facts before our eyes, what are we to think of the grief of the president, at the decay and increasing weakness of the Cherokees? - "A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America" by S. A. Ferrall
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This, with neglect of religion, he classes together as the two great causes of national decay. - "Horace and His Influence" by Grant Showerman
