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decayed

adjective as in rotten, falling apart

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One memory decayed much faster than the other -- a form of memory loss necessary for habituation, the researchers noted.

Methane spends a lot less time in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide; about 20 years after it's released, most of it will have decayed, while carbon dioxide lingers in the atmosphere for hundreds of years.

From Salon

The k track was the mirror image of a particle seen before by colleagues in Manchester, but the Manchester team's track decayed into two pions, not three.

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"However, very quickly that inflammatory response decayed, and then from that point you do not have this fibrosis formation."

“The street has decayed to a hostile state as the majority of businesses have closed,” Sinofsky summed up in a social media post that ended up causing a bit of a stir.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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