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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 decaying
 (adj.)頹壞

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 De·cay v. i. [imp. & p. p. Decayed p. pr. & vb. n. Decaying.]  To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay; hopes decay.
 Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
 Where wealth accumulates and men decay.   --Goldsmith.