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Adjective decomposing has 1 sense
- decomposing, moldering, mouldering - becoming rotten; "a field covered with thousands of decomposing bodies"; "John Brown's body lies a-moldering in the grave"
Antonyms: unrotten, unrotted (indirect, via rotten)
Verb decompose has 3 senses
- decompose, break up, break down - separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
--1 is one way to separate
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- disintegrate, decay, decompose - lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current; "the particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process"
--2 is one way to change integrity
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- decompose, rot, molder, moulder - break down; "The bodies decomposed in the heat"
--3 is one way to decay
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something ----s something
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