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    decaying


    1. Some insects help to improve the soil through aeration, while others help by generating compost from leaves and other decaying organic matter


    2. Once you have found signs of wood damage and you have determined that it’s not just old decaying wood then you have to decide if it’s termites or carpenter ants that you have


    3. MacKenzie’s eyes still flickered with the decaying embers of an old fire


    4. Lucy’s nostrils filled with the inevitable familiarity of the damp earth musk of the subterranean, of watered down piss pools, and the reek of old, decaying tobacco


    5. Ken and Eileen Roach lived on what had once been a decaying council housing estate in a small post-industrial town to the north-west of Birmingham, an estate that was by degrees being regenerated by a mixed bag of home owners, buy-to-let investors and housing trust managers


    6. Ken and Eileen Roach lived on what had once been a decaying


    7. Everything seems idyllically peaceful underneath the dilapidation of decaying human ingenuity


    8. Alan made her think of this song, for it told of a witch queen luring a guy from a distant star to a dark meeting house on some rain-soaked decaying waterfront, and from there pursuing him thru centuries and lifetimes to finally capture him on a windy hillside


    9. depiction of half-eaten and decaying corpses, and the


    10. He surveyed the decaying bridge, mulling it over with

    11. But it would be otherwise in a country where the funds destined for the maintenance of labour were sensibly decaying


    12. In a fertile country, which had before been much depopulated, where subsistence, consequently, should not be very difficult, and where, notwithstanding, three or four hundred thousand people die of hunger in one year, we maybe assured that the funds destined for the maintenance of the labouring poor are fast decaying


    13. The trade of Holland, it has been pretended by some people, is decaying, and it may perhaps be true that some particular branches of it are so; but these symptoms seem to indicate sufficiently that there is no general decay


    14. In a decaying manufacture, on the contrary, many


    15. their wages would neither rise too high in the thriving, nor sink too low in the decaying


    16. Creatures scurried into the shadows as she entered, hiding within the crumbling walls and pieces of decaying furniture


    17. becomes out of the body? A decaying material! Of


    18. The progress is frequently so gradual, that, at near periods, the improvement is not only not sensible, but, from the declension either of certain branches of industry, or of certain districts of the country, things which sometimes happen, though the country in general is in great prosperity, there frequently arises a suspicion, that the riches and industry of the whole are decaying


    19. Though at present few people, I believe, doubt of this, yet during this period five years have seldom passed away, in which some book or pamphlet has not been published, written, too, with such abilities as to gain some authority with the public, and pretending to demonstrate that the wealth of the nation was fast declining; that the country was depopulated, agriculture neglected, manufactures decaying, and trade undone


    20. To dream that you have rotting or decaying teeth implies that you may have said something that you shouldn’t have

    21. Since the establishment of the act of navigation, accordingly, the colony trade has been continually increasing, while many other branches of foreign trade, particularly of that to other parts of Europe, have been continually decaying


    22. In that indifferent space the image in his mind of himself decaying inside his suit


    23. For example, we know that fossils can only form if the object, that is fossilised, is encapsulated in an environment that would prevent decaying agents from reaching it


    24. These would bury animals and plants, rapidly cutting off exposure to decaying agents and allow the remains to fossilise during the subsequent years that followed


    25. Approaching the old factory, its mottled red brick facade, hiding nothing of what it truly is: old and decaying


    26. Stinking of urea, dead moss and decaying animal matter, the air was thick


    27. Borganst, Demorn, women, children, they lay all around, decaying, waiting to be consumed by nature and the elements


    28. It is often times, however, the result of self-destructive tendencies common to decaying cultures that have grown (morally) listless and (intellectually) indifferent to their (historic) traditions because of their (material) opulence, perhaps


    29. immigration policies are compromising the quality of life in areas where poverty, congestion, disease, drugs, crime, substandard housing and decaying infrastructures are demoralizing (complex) social and cultural arrangements (and civility) as an alarming number of our citizens are feeling alienated from mainstream conventions that no longer seem to provide any meaning


    30. America should seriously reassess the decrepit condition of its rapidly decaying interstate highways, many of which have grown exhausted, if not (functionally) depleted from wear and tear; dysfunctional anachronisms that are seemingly unable to meet the commuter requirements of rapidly expanding populations

    31. (Of course, the latter is arguably a sign of a decaying culture that has lost all sense of proportion) Dress, whether pricey or modest or falling somewhere in between, was always presentable and neat


    32. A lot of them might just be losers, maladjusted to life in a decaying metropolis that covered fifteen hundred light years from end to end, and with branches another six hundred long in several cases


    33. It was the smell of blood and decaying bodies


    34. The decaying remains of a number of oak trees lined the


    35. The frogs died in thousands and millions, the stink of their decaying bodies filled the


    36. I shall do everything it takes to rehabilitate his name, even if that means seeing his decaying corpse


    37. As the distance between them was reducing, Viktor could recognize that the shape was that of a decaying body and the smell coming from it was putrid


    38. The hand touched Viktor’s chest and all that the decaying body was feeling, Viktor started to feel


    39. The body had deep wounds from the decaying process and blood was hardened all along it


    40. What they saw was a body with deep decaying flesh

    41. of which they were so afraid? A thin layer of decaying leaves that lined


    42. themselves highly unstable; each existing for less than a billionth of a second before decaying


    43. Unlike all these miserable mortal creatures, you have unshackled yourself from the decaying material world and triumphed over death


    44. Decaying buildings line every street, each structure blending with the other


    45. Although I have my personal reasons for coming here, I cannot imagine why two high-ranking Administrators would want to spend their last living moments in a secluded and decaying cemetery overlooking the Pacific Ocean


    46. as the function room, sans decaying bodies lying


    47. rich decaying matter, and then learning to


    48. Of to renovate a decaying one


    49. And decaying thing


    50. He painted the outside boards with crude oil to keep them from decaying













































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    Synonyms for "decaying"

    disappearing disintegrating dying ebbing fading vanishing