decay
verb (used without object)
to become decomposed; rot.
undecayed
-
a word derived from
decay.
Example Sentences
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There Dr. Smith found his fish, rank but undecayed, on Trader Hunt's little ship.
From Time Magazine Archive
The pagans also believed that the bodies of the dead rested not, neither were they safe from magical evocations, so long as they remained unconsumed by fire, or undecayed underground.
From The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. by Henry Christmas
Its branches were yet undecayed, and the parasites still clung to them in thick tufts, giving the whole the appearance of a mass of hay loosely thrown together.
From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Mayne Reid
The ground throughout the forest is encumbered with fallen trunks, sometimes piled one on another to the depth of 20 or 30 feet, which, owing to the continuous moisture, remain undecayed for centuries.
From North America by Israel C. (Cook) Russell
The extensive plain of Eyrolúf is a solid level of a dark, black, undecayed lava.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris
