Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: verval
- Amharic: decay
- Arabic: تسوس
- Azerbaijani: dağılması
- Bashkir: тарҡалыуы
- Belarusian: распад
- Bulgarian: раздялата
- Bengali: ক্ষয়
- Bosnian: propadanje
- Catalan: decadència
- Cebuano: pagkadunot
- Czech: kaz
- Welsh: pydredd
- Danish: forfald
- German: Verfall
- Greek: αποσύνθεση
- Esperanto: kadukiĝo
- Spanish: la caries
- Estonian: lagunemine
- Basque: desintegrazio
- Persian: پوسیدگی
- Finnish: rappeutuminen
- French: la carie
- Irish: lobhadh
- Scottish Gaelic: s
- Galician: decadencia
- Gujarati: સડો
- Hebrew: ריקבון
- Hindi: क्षय
- Croatian: raspad
- Haitian: pouri anba tè
- Hungarian: bomlás
- Armenian: փլուզումը
- Indonesian: pembusukan
- Icelandic: rotnun
- Italian: decadimento
- Japanese: 崩壊
- Javanese: bosok
- Georgian: decay
- Kazakh: ыдырауы
- Khmer: ពុក
- Kannada: ಕೊಳೆತ
- Korean: 부패
- Kyrgyz: кулашы
- Latin: tabes
- Luxembourgish: Verfall
- Lao: ທະລາຍ
- Lithuanian: ėduonis
- Latvian: samazinājuma
- Malagasy: simba
- Mari: группын шаланымыже
- Maori: te pirau
- Macedonian: распаѓање
- Malayalam: ശോഷണം
- Mongolian: муудах
- Marathi: किडणे
- Hill Mari: шӓлӓнен
- Malay: kerosakan
- Maltese: tħassir
- Burmese: ကာ
- Nepali: क्षय
- Dutch: verval
- Norwegian: forfall
- Punjabi: ਸਡ਼ਨ
- Papiamento: e care
- Polish: rozkład
- Portuguese: decadência
- Romanian: degradare
- Russian: распад
- Sinhalese: ක්ෂය
- Slovak: kazu
- Slovenian: gniloba
- Albanian: kalbjes
- Serbian: распад
- Sundanese: buruk
- Swedish: förfall
- Swahili: kuoza
- Tamil: சிதைவு
- Telugu: క్షయం
- Tajik: ҷудошавии
- Thai: การเสื่อม
- Tagalog: pagkabulok
- Turkish: çürüme
- Tatar: күршеләре
- Udmurt: распад
- Ukrainian: розпад
- Urdu: کشی
- Uzbek: parchalanish
- Vietnamese: rã
- Xhosa: decay
- Yiddish: פאַרפוילן
- Chinese: 腐烂
Synonyms, close and similar words for decay
- smolder
- collapse
- dissolution
- decomposition
- fission
- fade
- rot
- festering
- putrescence
- waste
- languish
- declension
- decline
- break up
- decompose
- disintegrate
- come apart
- putrefaction
- rottenness
- dilapidation
- decrepitude
- disrepair
- disintegration
- the destruction
- destruction
- fading
- ebb
- wilt
- degeneration
- degradation
- degenerate
- deteriorate
- worsen
- corruption
- spoilage
- deterioration
- blight
- rot away
- putrefy
- attenuation
- damping
- weakening
- enfeeblement
- crumble
- fail
- dilapidate
- fall into decay
- fall into disrepair
- demise
- breakdown
- smoulder
- regress
- sag
- droop
- devolve