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1. Break down
   "The bodies rotted in the heat"
   - decompose, molder [N. Amer], moulder [Brit, Cdn]
    
2. Become physically weaker
   "Political prisoners are rotting away in many prisons all over the world"
   - waste

1. A state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odour
   - putrefaction
    
2. (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
   - decomposition, rotting, putrefaction, biodegradation
    
3. (informal) untrue or nonsensical statements
   - bunk, bunkum, buncombe, guff, hogwash, nonsense, rhubarb [Brit], flapdoodle [N. Amer], folderol, rubbish, tripe, trumpery [archaic], trash, wish-wash, applesauce, codswallop [Brit], falderal

Derived forms: rots, rotted, rotting

Type of: decay, degenerate, deteriorate, devolve, drivel, drop, garbage

Encyclopedia: Rot