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  • 41rot — Synonyms and related words: Texas fever, anthrax, aphthous fever, baloney, bighead, bilge, black quarter, blackleg, blackwater, blah, blah blah, blast, blight, blind staggers, bloody flux, bop, bosh, break down, break up, broken wind, bull,… …

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  • 42slough — Synonyms and related words: abandon, baygall, bilge, bilgewater, bind, bog, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, buffalo wallow, caries, carrion, case, cashier, cast, cast aside, cast away, cast off, chuck, chuckhole, clutch, complication, crunch, decay …

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  • 43spoilage — Synonyms and related words: biodegradability, biodegradation, breakup, caries, carrion, corrosion, corruption, decay, decomposition, degradability, degradation, dilapidation, disintegration, disorganization, dissolution, dry rot, foulness,… …

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  • 44decay — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. decomposition, deterioration, disintegration, dilapidation, putrefaction, rot, caries. v. i. rot, putrefy, mortify; disintegrate. See oldness, uncleanness. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A progressive… …

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  • 45dirty — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unclean, filthy, soiled, foul; murky, miry, stormy; vile, sordid, mean; pornographic; dishonest. See uncleanness, dimness, impurity, cloudiness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Containing dirt] Syn.… …

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  • 46filth — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. dirt, ordure; obscenity. See uncleanness, impurity. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. dirt, muck, sewage, garbage, ordure, dung, feces, contamination, corruption, pollution, uncleanness, foul matter, excreta,… …

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  • 47putrid — [ pju:trɪd] adjective 1》 decaying or rotting and emitting a fetid smell. 2》 informal very unpleasant. Derivatives putridity noun putridly adverb putridness noun Origin ME: from L. putridus, from putrere …

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  • 48putrescence — n. Rottenness, putridity …

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  • 49decomposition — noun 1) an advanced state of decomposition Syn: decay, putrefaction, putrescence, putridity 2) the decomposition of granite Syn: disintegration, dissolution; breaking down, decay …

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  • 50decay — v 1. decline, sicken, fail, waste away, atrophy, ebb, wane, dwindle; wither, degenerate, deteriorate, molder, crumble, fall to pieces, disintegrate, wear away, corrode. 2. spoil, rot, go bad, putrefy, decompose. n 3. decline, failing, weakening,… …

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