Decayed and Short

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Decayed adjective - Having lost forcefulness, courage, or spirit.

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Short and decayed are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Short" instead an adjective "Decayed".

Nearby Words: decay, decaying

Short adjective - Having relatively little height.

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Decayed and short are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Decayed" instead an adjective "Short".

In a modern American context, this is an Undead Trope, as railroads have decayed in favor of short-hop plane flights and the automobile.

Source: Train-Station Goodbye
Played straight in Lord Dunsany's short story The Avenger of Perdondaris where in the far future a shepherd's offer of hospitality is 'Everkike' or 'Av er kike,' badly decayed Cockney for 'Have a cake.'

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For a short while the heroes (who include a time traveler and Sufficiently Advanced Alien) actually have trouble fighting Disaster, but by the end of the first arc, Disaster has decayed so much that it's beaten up by perfectly-mundane schoolgirls.

Source: Villain Decay

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