Hello! By any chance, do you have synonyms or related words to "decompose"?
Thank you in anticipation!
Hi! Here are some words related to decompose:
Decompose—to break up into constituent parts by or as if by a chemical process
Addle - to become rotten; spoil
Atrophy - to waste away (as from disease or disuse)
Corrode - to wear away gradually usually by chemical action
Corrupt - rot, spoil; to cause disintegration
Crumble - to fall into small pieces; disintegrate
Curdle - to go bad or wrong; spoil, sour
Decay - to undergo decomposition
Decline - a gradual physical or mental sinking and wasting away
Deteriorate - to become impaired in quality, functioning, or condition; degenerate
Devolve - to degenerate through a gradual change or evolution
Dilapidate - to bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin
Disintegrate - to break or decompose into constituent elements, parts, or small particles
Dissolve - to separate into component parts; disintegrate
Fester - to undergo or exist in a state of progressive deterioration
Mildew - to become affected with mildew (i.e., a superficial usually whitish growth produced especially on organic matter or living plants by fungi)
Mold - to become moldy (i.e., covered with a superficial often woolly growth produced especially on damp or decaying organic matter or on living organisms by a fungus, as of the order Mucorales)
Mortify - to become necrotic (usually localized death of living tissue) or gangrenous (local death of soft tissues due to loss of blood supply)
Necrotize - to undergo necrosis (i.e., usually localized death of living tissue)
Perish - deteriorate, spoil
Putrefy - to undergo putrefaction (i.e., the decomposition of organic matter)
Putresce - to become putrescent or putrid; putrefy
Putrid - being in a state of putrefaction; rotten
Rot - to undergo decomposition from the action of bacteria or fungi
Rust - to be affected with a rust fungus
Sour - smelling or tasting of decay; rancid, rotten
Sphacelate - to become gangrenous (local death of soft tissues due to loss of blood supply)
Spoil - to lose valuable or useful qualities usually as a result of decay
Taint - to affect with putrefaction; spoil
Tarnish - to dull or destroy the luster of by or as if by air, dust, or dirt; soil, stain
Wither - to shrivel from or as if from loss of bodily moisture; to lose vitality, force, or freshness
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