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predecay

adj

Etymology

From pre- + decay.

  1. derived from dēcidō — “to fall down, to fail, sink or perish”
  2. derived from decheoir — “to fall away, decay, decline”
  3. inherited from decaien
  4. prefixed as predecay — “pre + decay”

Definitions

  1. Prior to decay (of e.g. a radioactive particle).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for predecay. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA