- rot
- v1. decay, decompose, putrefy, fester, spoil, go bad; mold, molder, rust; suppurate, Pathol. gangrene, Pathol. mortify.2. deteriorate, disintegrate, fall apart, come apart, go to pieces, crumble; degenerate, retrograde.3. eat away, eat at, erode, wear away, break down, gnaw at the root of, undermine; impair, harm, injure.4. corrupt, canker, abase, degrade; debase, vitiate, pervert, warp, deprave, demoralize; defile, ruin, deflower; taint, stain, sully, blemish, poison.n5. decay, decomposition, putrefaction, putrescence, putrescency, spoilage; mold, moldiness, mildew, dry rot, blight; deterioration, dissolution, disintegration; suppuration, purulence, Pathol. gangrene, Pathol. mortification.6. corruption, perversion, degradation, debasement, vitiation; decadence, the skids, dissoluteness, degeneracy, degenerateness, demoralization; pollution, contamination.7.Informal. nonsense, tommyrot, twaddle, rubbish, Sl. applesauce, Sl. baloney, balderdash, hogwash; idiocy, absurdness, craziness.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.