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Synonyms for rotting
rot·ting
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Princeton's WordNet
decomposition, rot, rotting, putrefactionnoun
(biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
Synonyms:
putrefaction, bunkum, hogwash, decomposition reaction, guff, chemical decomposition reaction, decay, bunk, degeneracy, buncombe, depravity, vector decomposition, depravation, decomposition, corruption, rot, disintegration
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List of paraphrases for "rotting":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#6904 | corruption | |
#10134 | decay | |
#14991 | decomposition | |
#17344 | rot | |
#19709 | bunk | |
#20125 | dripping | |
#35279 | rotting | |
#37989 | decaying | |
#38113 | disintegration | |
#53248 | buncombe | |
#55791 | depravity | |
#59727 | decomposing | |
#66134 | degeneracy | |
#92640 | hogwash | |
#109173 | guff | |
#165249 | putrefaction | |
#264686 | depravation |
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The vast majority of slugs and snails feed on dead or rotting vegetation so I wouldn't call them the gardener's pest, they get a bad press.
Three dead bodies were rotting outside our home for three days, but it was too dangerous to get them. The Taliban is attacking on one side. The government is attacking the other side. In the middle we are just losing, we just want peace. We need peace. We don't care who's the ruler... People said that when America withdraws there would be peace in Afghanistan but then they withdrew and the war got worse.
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people -- including me -- would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Marine Lt. Gen. Stuart Scheller:
I was ready to put my head through a wall – it was like, ‘ Are you kidding ? The biggest threat is COVID ? ’ There are things rotting us from the bottom. Either you just don't know or you are playing a political game, but it doesn't matter because you are not benefiting the junior service member if that is your diagnosis of the problem.
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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