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(verb) waste away; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world" |
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Synonyms: waste |
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Related Words: degenerate, deteriorate, drop, gangrene, mortify, necrose, sphacelate |
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(verb) break down; "The bodies decomposed in the heat" |
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Synonyms: decompose, molder, moulder |
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Related Words: decay, hang |
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(noun) decaying caused by bacterial or fungal action |
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Synonyms: decomposition, putrefaction, rotting |
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Related Words: decay |
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(noun) decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor |
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Synonyms: putrefaction |
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Related Words: corruption, decay, putrescence, putridness, rottenness |
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(noun) a ludicrously false statement |
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Synonyms: Irish bull, bull, bullshit, buncombe, bunk, bunkum, crap, dogshit, guff, hogwash, horseshit, shit |
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Related Words: drivel |
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