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English to English noun
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a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor |  | source: wordnet30
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(biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action | | source: wordnet30
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unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) | | source: wordnet30
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Process of rotting; decay; putrefaction. | | source: webster1913 verb
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break down | | Example: The bodies decomposed in the heat
source: wordnet30
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become physically weaker | | Example: Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world
source: wordnet30
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To undergo a process common to organic substances by which they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through certain chemical changes, giving off usually in some stages of the process more or less offensive odors; to become decomposed by a natural process; to putrefy; to decay. | | source: webster1913
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To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes; as, to rot vegetable fiber. | | source: webster1913
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