Decayed and Tarnished

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

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

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Decayed and tarnished are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Decayed" instead an adjective "Tarnished".

Nearby Words: tarnish, tarnishing

He stinks like something rotten or burnt, his fingers are claws, he has maggots in his decayed teeth and bugs are crawling in his "tarnished" wings.

Source: Creator / Lauren Kate
Beauty Is Never Tarnished: The default Stalker model is surprisingly healthy-looking and attractive, lacking the deformities and disfigurement seen in most of the other specimens (only the Scrake also doesn't have bits sliced or decayed off).

Source: Video Game / Killing Floor

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