noun
1. a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
• Syn: ↑rot
• Hypernyms: ↑decay
• Hyponyms: ↑putrescence, ↑putridness, ↑rottenness, ↑corruption
2. (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
• Syn: ↑decomposition, ↑rot, ↑rotting
• Derivationally related forms: ↑putrefy, ↑rot (for: ↑rotting), ↑rot (for: ↑rot), ↑decompose (for: ↑decomposition)
• Topics: ↑biology, ↑biological science
• Hypernyms: ↑decay
3. moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
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the luxury and corruption among the upper classes
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moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration
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its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity
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Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction
• Syn: ↑corruption, ↑degeneracy, ↑depravation, ↑depravity
• Derivationally related forms: ↑depraved (for: ↑depravity), ↑deprave (for: ↑depravity), ↑deprave (for: ↑depravation)
• Hypernyms: ↑immorality
Useful english dictionary. 2012.