Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of or liable to decay.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective susceptible to decay.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of
decaying ;perishable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective liable to decay or spoil or become putrid
Etymologies
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decay + -able
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Examples
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The company they had provided was worth far more to it than a few bits of decayable plant or animal matter.
Carnivores of Light and Darkness Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000
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