Read full poem →With age decayed, with courts and bus'ness tired,
Caring for nothing but what ease required;
Dictionary Entry
To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.
In a Sentence
“The pair loved to take pictures in the decaying hospital on forty-third street.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “decayed”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Then also marke how Rome, from day to day,
Repayring her decayed fashion,
Renewes herselfe with buildings rich and gay;
Read full poem →My self to Thee, O God; first I was made
By Thee, and for Thee, and when I was decayed
Thy blood bought that, the which before was Thine;
Read full poem →Oblige us to each other now,
When passion is decayed?
We loved, and we loved, as long as we could,
Read full poem →The gibbet in its terror stood:
Though now decayed, tis not forgot,
But dreaded as a haunted spot.--
Read full poem →My self to Thee, O God; first I was made
By Thee, and for Thee, and when I was decayed
Thy blood bought that, the which before was Thine;
Read full poem →Oblige us to each other now,
When passion is decayed?
We loved, and we loved, as long as we could,
Read full poem →Who can, like thee, our rags upbraid,
Or taunt us with our hope decayed?
Or who like thee persuade,
Read full poem →In newer days of war and trade,
Romance forgot, and faith decayed,
When Science armed and guided war,
Read full poem →Bitten by flies, fought.
My house is a decayed house,
And the jew squats on the window sill, the owner,