Decay - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 17/03/2025

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Decay.

3 letter answer(s) to decay

EBB
  1. a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
  2. fall away or decline; "The patient's strength ebbed away"
  3. flow back or recede; "the tides ebbed at noon"
  4. hem in fish with stakes and nets so as to prevent them from going back into the sea with the ebb
  5. the outward flow of the tide
ROT
  1. (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
  2. a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
  3. become physically weaker; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"
  4. break down; "The bodies decomposed in the heat"
  5. unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)

6 letter answer(s) to decay

FESTER
  1. a sore that has become inflamed and formed pus
  2. ripen and generate pus; "her wounds are festering"
  3. Rot
PERISH
  1. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"
  2. to rot

5 letter answer(s) to decay

GOBAD

8 letter answer(s) to decay

GOTOSEED

Other crossword clues with similar answers to 'Decay'

"Baloney!"
"Cabaret" lyricist
"Chicago" lyricist
"Hogwash!"
(Of tide) go out
(Of tide) recede
... at first expected Biden to welcome British decline
A drop in the ocean?
Abate
Addams Family uncle
Applesauce
Balderdash
Baloney
Banqueter ignoring a brew
Bastard born following English decline
Be upset – boat's beginning to sink
Be wiped out
Become an increasing sour
Become inedible
Become rotten
Become septic
Become spoiled
Become unusable
Bolt in trouble, turned up nursing broken toes at end of race
Break down
Break down rubbish
Bunk
Bushwa
Carrot or beet
Cheap booze
Claptrap
Codswallop
Conservative not fully reversing corruption
Decline
Decline eastern bishop twice
Decline terms of free boob job
Decompose
Decomposition
Decrease
Deteriorate
Die
Die by essentially persisting with heroin
Die; decay
Die; rot
Diminish
Disappear forever
Disintegrate
Drivel
Drop
Dry ___
Dwindle
English bishops decline
English books fall back
Expire
Eyewash
Fade away
Fail to keep
Fall back
Fall off
Final part in lower back to deteriorate
Finally lose black bishop, fall away
Finally wave bye bye and go out
Finally wave bye-bye and go out
Fine organic compound's gradually become bitter
Flag
Flood stage
Flow back
Flow back, as the tide
Flow's partner
Flummery
Form compost
Gibberish
Go back
Go bad
Go down
Go off
Go off tripe
Go out
Go out live: revolutionary start for broadcast
Go to seed
Go to waste
Gobbledygook
Gradual decline
Half-hearted support shows decline
Hogwash
Hokum
Horsefeathers
Humbug
Languish
Lose intensity
Ludicrous comments
Make a stink?
Malarkey
Meet an untimely fate
Moonshine
Nonsense
Nonsense coming from revolutionary needing no introduction
Nonsense, coming from brother-in-law
Outward flow
Pass by one with Sherlock Holmes initially
Penned unlimited rubbish
Period of decline
Point of decline
Poppycock
Produce progressive irrit
Pure baloney
Putrefaction
Raise a stink?
Rankle
Recede
Recede, revealing some pebbles
Reflux
Retreat observed in the BBC
Retrocede
Root problem?
Root vegetable loses half to decay
Rot
Rot, die
Rubbish
Rubbish from Jethro Tull
Rubbish to run over
Rubbish; decay
See 6 Across
Setter leaving bread to go off
Shrink
Shuffle off this mortal coil
Sink
Spoil
Spoilage
Sprout mold, say
Start making a stink?
Start to smell, maybe
Subside
Suppurate
Taper off
Tidal movement
To die from contents of hamper is horrendous
Tripe
Turn
Turn bad
Twaddle
Visit Bill, but not a degenerate
Visit Germany and deteriorate
Wane
Wash out to sea
Withdraw
Withdraw European books
Work schedule incomplete? Nonsense

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