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Synonyms for decay
The synonym for decay recorded in this bank is crumble, in the sense "fall into decay or ruin". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for decay
- crumbleverb, in the sense "fall into decay or ruin"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day decay is audited in a second meaning.
fall into decay or ruin
The unoccupied house started to decay.
The true synonym
crumble
Same sentence, swapped: The unoccupied house started to crumble.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- freshen
- mellow
- rust
Where decay turns up in the game
decay is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where decay is the trap
- sproutverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is germinate, in the sense "of a seed, to begin to grow and put out shoots", with decay sitting one tile away.
Play decay
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so decay reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from change at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. decay carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.