Rotting Synonyms and Antonyms

Having rotted
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. crumbling
  2. wasting-away
  3. saprobic
Break down
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. spoiling
  2. decomposing
  3. moldering
  4. disintegrating
  5. warping
  6. turning
  7. wasting
  8. deteriorating
  9. trashing
  10. suppurating
  11. tainting
  12. decaying
  13. perishing
  14. maturating
  15. festering
  16. degenerating
  17. declining
  18. corrupting
  19. corroding
  20. contaminating
  21. chaffing
Antonyms:
  1. growing
  2. flourishing
  3. building
To undergo decomposition, especially organic decomposition; decay.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. decaying
(biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. decomposition
  2. rot
  3. putrefaction

Words Related to Rotting

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Rotting Sentence Examples

  • The sweet scent of rotting seaweed made her nose wrinkle.

  • On the night of the 5th of February the transit began, the cavalry leading the way through the snow-covered ice, which quickly thawed beneath the horses' hoofs so that the infantry which followed after had to wade through half an ell of sludge, fearing every moment lest the rotting ice should break beneath their feet.

  • The effects of badly-executed pruning, or rather hacking, are most noticeable in the case of forest trees, the mutilation of which often results in rotting, canker and other diseases.

  • The cut portions of bulky sets should be suffered to lie a short time before being planted, in order to dry the surface and prevent rotting; this should not, however, be done with such tropical subjects as caladiums, the tubers of which are often cut up into very small fragments for propagation, and of course require to be manipulated in a properly heated propagating pit.

  • The spores, which are set free by the rotting of the sporangial wall, germinate much as in the case of Selaginella, though the similarity may be a case of independent resemblance.

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