1. Altérer par la carie.
Dans les temps humides, les blés se carient promptement.
L'os se carie.
Cette dent commence à se carier.
L'usage de cet élixir lui a carié toutes les dents.
2. [noun] The process or result of being gradually decomposed.
3. [noun] A deterioration of condition.
4. [verb] (intransitive) To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.
5. [verb] (intransitive) (electronics) (of storage media or the data on them) To undergo bit rot, that is, gradual degradation.
6. [verb] (intransitive) (computing) (of software) To undergo software rot, that is, to fail to be updated in a changing environment,so as to eventually become legacy or obsolete.
7. [verb] (intransitive) (physics) (of a satellite's orbit) To undergo prolonged reduction in altitude (above the orbited body).
8. [verb] (intransitive) (of organic material) To rot, to go bad.
9. [verb] (intransitive) (transitive) (physics) (chemistry) (of an unstable atom) To change by undergoing fission, by emitting radiation, or by capturing or losing one or more electrons.
10. [verb] (intransitive) (transitive) (physics) (of a quantum system) To undergo optical decay, that is, to relax to a less excited state, usually by emitting a photon or phonon.
11. [verb] (intransitive) (aviation) Loss of airspeed due to drag.
12. [verb] (transitive) To cause to rot or deteriorate.
13. [noun] The process of gradually becoming inferior.
14. [noun] A gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current.
15. [noun] The organic phenomenon of rotting.
16. [noun] An inferior state resulting from the process of decaying; 'the corpse was in an advanced state of decay'; 'the house had fallen into a serious state of decay and disrepair'.
17. [noun] The spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation.
18. [verb] Lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current; 'the particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process'.
19. [verb] Fall into decay or ruin; 'The unoccupied house started to decay'.
20. [verb] Undergo decay or decomposition; 'The body started to decay and needed to be cremated'.
