Synonyms of the word

rot

• v. (intransitive) To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
• v. (intransitive) To decline in function or utility.
• v. (intransitive) To deteriorate in any way.
• v. (transitive) To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To spend a long period of time (in an unpleasant place).
• v. (transitive) To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber;…
• n. The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
• n. Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
• n. Verbal nonsense.

buncombe

• n. (archaic) Alternative spelling of bunkum.

bunk

• n. One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
• n. (nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
• n. (military) A cot.
• n. (US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
• n. (US, dialect) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
• v. To occupy a bunk.
• v. To provide a bunk.
• n. (slang) Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.
• adj. (slang) defective, broken, not functioning properly.
• v. (Britain) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk…
• v. (dated) To expel from a school.

bunkum

• n. (slang) Senseless talk; nonsense; a piece of nonsense (countable).
• n. (Washington, DC) Bombastic political posturing or oratorical display designed only for show or public…

decay

• n. The process or result of being gradually decomposed.
• n. A deterioration of condition.
• v. (intransitive) To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.
• v. (intransitive, of organic material) To rot, to go bad.
• v. (intransitive, transitive, physics, chemistry, of an unstable atom) To change by undergoing fission, by…
• v. (intransitive, transitive, physics, of a quantum system) To undergo optical decay, that is, to relax to…
• v. (intransitive, aviation) Loss of airspeed due to drag.
• v. (transitive) To cause to rot or deteriorate.

decompose

• v. (transitive) to separate or break down something into its components; to disintegrate or fragment.
• v. (intransitive) to rot, decay or putrefy.

decomposition

• n. A biological process through which organic material is reduced to e.g. compost.
• n. The act of taking something apart, e.g. for analysis.
• n. The splitting (of e.g. a matrix, an atom, or a compound) into constituent parts.

degenerate

• adj. (of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to…
• adj. (of a human or system) Having lost good or desirable qualities.
• adj. (of an encoding or function) Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range.
• adj. (mathematics) A degenerate case is a limiting case in which a class of object changes its nature so as…
• adj. (physics) Having the same quantum energy level.
• n. One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature.
• v. (intransitive) To lose good or desirable qualities.
• v. (transitive) To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.

deteriorate

• v. (transitive) To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair.
• v. (intransitive) To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.
• v. (informal) slang: to nerf (used in gaming) something which is overpowered.

devolve

• v. (obsolete, transitive) To roll (something) down; to unroll.
• v. (intransitive) To be inherited by someone else; to pass down upon the next person in a succession, especially…
• v. (transitive) To delegate (a responsibility, duty, etc.) on or upon someone.
• v. (intransitive) To fall as a duty or responsibility on or upon someone.
• v. (intransitive) To degenerate; to break down.

drivel

• n. senseless talk; nonsense.
• n. saliva, drool.
• n. (obsolete) A fool; an idiot.
• n. (obsolete) A servant; a drudge.
• v. To have saliva drip from the mouth; to drool.
• v. To talk nonsense; to talk senselessly.
• v. To be weak or foolish; to dote.

drop

• n. A small mass of liquid just large enough to hold its own weight via surface tension, usually one that…
• n. The space or distance below a cliff or other high position into which someone or something could fall.
• n. A fall, descent; an act of dropping.
• n. A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, sometimes associated with criminal…
• n. An instance of dropping supplies or making a delivery, sometimes associated with delivery of supplies…
• n. (chiefly Britain) A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
• n. (chieflt, Britain, when used with the definite article (the drop) alcoholic spirits in general.
• n. (Ireland, informal) A single measure of whisky.
• n. A small, round, sweet piece of hard candy, e.g. a lemon drop; a lozenge.
• n. (American football) A dropped pass.
• n. (American football) Short for drop-back or drop back.
• n. (Rugby football) A drop-kick.
• n. In a woman, the difference between bust circumference and hip circumference; in a man, the difference…
• n. (sports, usually with definite article "the") relegation from one division to a lower one.
• n. (video games, online gaming) Any item dropped by defeated enemies.
• n. (music) A point in a song, usually electronic-styled music such as dubstep, house, trance or trap, where…
• n. (US, banking, dated) An unsolicited credit card issue.
• n. The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
• n. That which resembles or hangs like a liquid drop: a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant…
• n. (architecture) A gutta.
• n. A mechanism for lowering something, such as: a trapdoor; a machine for lowering heavy weights onto a ship's…
• n. (slang) (With definite article) A gallows; a sentence of hanging.
• n. A drop press or drop hammer.
• n. (engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
• n. (nautical) The depth of a square sail; generally applied to the courses only.
• v. (intransitive) To fall in droplets (of a liquid).
• v. (transitive) To drip (a liquid).
• v. (intransitive) Generally, to fall (straight down).
• v. (transitive, ergative) To let fall; to allow to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
• v. (intransitive) To sink quickly to the ground.
• v. (intransitive) To fall dead, or to fall in death.
• v. (intransitive) To come to an end (by not being kept up); to stop.
• v. (transitive) To mention casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
• v. (transitive, slang) To part with or spend (money).
• v. (transitive) To cease concerning oneself over; to have nothing more to do with (a subject, discussion…
• v. (intransitive) To lessen, decrease, or diminish in value, condition, degree, etc.
• v. (transitive) To let (a letter etc.) fall into a postbox; to send (a letter or message).
• v. (transitive) To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot etc.; to bring down,…
• v. (transitive, linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter etc.).
• v. (cricket, of a fielder) To fail to make a catch from a batted ball that would have lead to the batsman…
• v. (transitive, slang) To swallow (a drug), particularly LSD.
• v. (transitive) To dispose (of); get rid of; to remove; to lose.
• v. (transitive) To eject; to dismiss; to cease to include, as if on a list.
• v. (Rugby football) To score [a goal] by means of a drop-kick.
• v. (transitive, slang) To impart.
• v. (transitive, music, colloquial) To release to the public.
• v. (transitive, music) To play a portion of music in the manner of a disc jockey.
• v. (intransitive, music, colloquial) To enter public distribution.
• v. (transitive, music) To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
• v. (transitive) To cancel or end a scheduled event, project or course.
• v. (transitive, fast food) To cook, especially by deep-frying or grilling.
• v. (intransitive, of a voice) To lower in timbre, often relating to puberty.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound or song) To lower in pitch, tempo, key, or other quality.
• v. (intransitive, of people) To visit informally; used with in or by.
• v. To give birth to.
• v. To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.
• v. (slang, of the testicles) To hang lower and begin producing sperm due to puberty.

garbage

• n. (obsolete) The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.
• n. Food waste material of any kind.
• n. Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
• n. A place or receptacle for waste material.
• n. Nonsense; gibberish.
• n. (often attributively) Something or someone worthless.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To eviscerate.

guff

• n. (informal) Nonsensical talk or thinking.
• n. (informal) Superfluous information.
• n. (informal) Insolent or otherwise unacceptable remarks.
• v. (slang) To break wind.
• v. (slang) To mislead.

hogwash

• n. (slang) foolish talk or writing; nonsense.
• n. swill.

molder

• n. One who molds something into shape.
• n. A person who makes molds.
• n. A tool for making molds.
• n. A machine for making molding.
• v. To decay to dust, to disintegrate from rot.

moulder

• v. (transitive) To decay or rot.
• n. A person who moulds dough into loaves.
• n. Anyone who moulds or shapes things.
• n. A machine used for moulding.

putrefaction

• n. The act of causing to rot; the anaerobic splitting of proteins by bacteria and fungi with the formation…
• n. Rotten material.
• n. The state of being rotten.

rotting

• v. present participle of rot.
• n. The process by which something rots.
• n. Material that has rotted.

waste

• n. Excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
• n. Excrement or urine.
• n. A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
• n. A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
• n. A large tract of uncultivated land.
• n. (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays…
• n. A vast expanse of water.
• n. A disused mine or part of one.
• n. The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
• n. Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
• n. Gradual loss or decay.
• n. A decaying of the body by disease; wasting away.
• n. (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; See "to lay waste".
• n. (law) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the…
• n. (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the…
• adj. (now rare) Uncultivated, uninhabited.
• adj. Barren; desert.
• adj. Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
• adj. Superfluous; needless.
• adj. Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
• adj. Unfortunate; disappointing.
• v. (transitive) to devastate, destroy.
• v. (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.
• v. (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
• v. (transitive) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to…
• v. (intransitive) Gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
• v. (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
• v. (law) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences,…