"decay" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

decay sustantivo

sustantivo + decay
Kolokacji: 7
tooth decay • beta decay • proton decay • alpha decay • gamma decay • ...
decay + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 9
decay product • decay rate • decay mode • decay process • decay chain • ...
decay + verbo
Kolokacji: 3
decay causes • decay occurs • decay happens
verbo + decay
Kolokacji: 8
fall into decay • prevent tooth decay • undergo decay • cause tooth decay • smell decay • ...
(1) fall, undergo
Kolokacji: 2
(2) prevent, cause, stop, resist
Kolokacji: 4
3. stop decay = rozpad zatrzymania stop decay
4. resist decay = staw opór rozpadowi resist decay
  • It can be easily split and resists decay, cypress-pine also is termite resistant.
  • Neisser (1984) uses a different term, he prefers critical threshold, a level that has to be reached, and beyond that threshold knowledge will resist decay.
  • Coir rope is useful on account of its durability and power of resisting decay during long immersion.
  • Cedar resists moisture and decay, making it prized for coffins.
  • Being from a plant that grows in standing water, with humid conditions, the fibre resists decay by humidity and is apt for tropical temperatures.
  • It can be easily split and resists decay.
  • Those tree-trunk supports had been impregnated with chapopotli to resist decay, and that made them resistant to our blades as well.
  • Either the birds survived there much longer or else the remarkable preservative quality of the dry air caused the remains to resist decay.
  • The posts were chemically treated to resist decay, greatly increasing the useful life of a building.
  • Protoplasm is so tenacious and durable that even a drowned corpse resists decay for days.
(3) smell, suffer
Kolokacji: 2
adjetivo + decay
Kolokacji: 32
radioactive decay • urban decay • moral decay • social decay • natural decay • ...
preposición + decay
Kolokacji: 12
of decay • into decay • from decay • in decay • to decay • ...

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