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are decaying

  • present progressive of decay.

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In both scenes, the physical surroundings are decaying: rotting wooden fences, bricks crumbling, plaster peeling from walls.

From Washington Post Dec. 17, 2022

The heavy batteries that power the robot are decaying and the chest-mounted tablets run on an out-of-date Android operating system without the latest security updates, one of the sources said.

From Reuters Jul. 21, 2021

The narrator asks her editor if he thinks that the islanders’ hearts are decaying.

From The New Yorker Nov. 6, 2019

What if neutrons are decaying into these invisible particles?

From Scientific American Jan. 29, 2018

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying, now, and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that happened.

From Chapters from My Autobiography by Twain, Mark