Synonyms for rotting
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1. 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

Matched Categories

1. • Biology
   • Decay

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1. List of paraphrases for "rotting":

   decaying, decomposing, dripping

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1. James Sherman:

   Some people aren’t ready to see that yet, it’s literally people’s flesh rotting, and you can smell it.

2. Victoria Abbott-Fleming:

   There were thousands of them. I felt physically sick. I felt dirty, like I had rotting flesh. I wanted my leg off there and then.

3. 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.

4. Paul Hetherington:

   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.

5. Hunter S. Thompson:

   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.