moulder 'COD: slowly decay' spoil 'COD: (of food) become unfit for eating. ' putrefy 'COD: decay or rot and produce a fetid smell.' fester 'COD: become rotten' decompose 'COD: (of organic matter) decay; become rotten. ' decay 'COD: rot or cause to rot through the action of bacteria and fungi; decompose. ' rot 'COD: decompose by the action of bacteria and fungi; decay or cause to decay' perish 'COD: rot or decay.'
The bodies decomposed in the heat The body started to decay and needed to be cremated
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The roses bloomed.
Examples from SemCor
Diving_boards must have non-skid surfaces( coco matting takes an awful beating from chlorine and rots quickly, but grit-impregnated paints are excellent). A successful businessman recently prefaced his address to a luncheon group with the statement that all economists should be sent to the hospitals for the mentally deranged where they and their theories might rot together. ** h Automatically, Finnegan started going_over today 's lesson** h Capitalism rots from the core.