fall+into+decay

  • 51Berwick, North —    BERWICK, NORTH, a burgh, market town, and parish, in the county of Haddington, 10 miles (N. by E.) from Haddington, and 23 (N. E. by E.) from Edinburgh; containing 1708 inhabitants, of whom 1028 are in the burgh. This place derives its name… …

    A Topographical dictionary of Scotland

  • 52gangrene — Synonyms and related words: break up, canker, caries, carrion, corrupt, corruption, crumble, crumble into dust, dandruff, decay, decompose, decomposition, disintegrate, dry gangrene, dry rot, excrement, fall into decay, fall to pieces, fester,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 53rot — Synonyms and related words: Texas fever, anthrax, aphthous fever, baloney, bighead, bilge, black quarter, blackleg, blackwater, blah, blah blah, blast, blight, blind staggers, bloody flux, bop, bosh, break down, break up, broken wind, bull,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 54canker — Synonyms and related words: abscess, adulterate, alloy, aposteme, bed sore, blain, blast, bleb, blight, blister, boil, break up, bubo, bulla, bunion, cancer, canker sore, carbuncle, chancre, chancroid, cheapen, chilblain, coarsen, cold sore,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 55corrupt — Synonyms and related words: abandoned, abase, aberrant, abroad, abuse, adrift, adulterate, afflict, aggrieve, alienate, all abroad, all off, all wrong, alloy, amiss, amoral, approach, approachable, askew, astray, at fault, awry, bad, baneful,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 56mortify — Synonyms and related words: abash, break up, bring down, canker, cast down, castigate, chagrin, chasten, confound, confuse, control, corrupt, crumble, crumble into dust, crush, decay, decompose, deflate, degrade, discipline, discomfit, discompose …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 57spoil — Synonyms and related words: accommodate, acquisition, baby, baffle, balk, be after, be all thumbs, be desirous of, be spoiling for, blackmail, blast, blemish, blight, blot, blunder, blunder away, blunder into, blunder on, blunder upon, boggle,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 58heraldry — heraldist, n. /her euhl dree/, n., pl. heraldries. 1. the science of armorial bearings. 2. the art of blazoning armorial bearings, of settling the rights of persons to bear arms or to use certain bearings, of tracing and recording genealogies, of …

    Universalium

  • 59decompose — Synonyms and related words: ablate, anatomize, atomize, break down, break up, canker, come apart, consume, corrode, corrupt, crack up, crumble, crumble into dust, decay, deliquesce, disintegrate, disjoin, disorganize, dissect, dissolve, erode,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 60fester — Synonyms and related words: abscess, afflict, agonize, ail, aposteme, bed sore, bite, blain, bleb, blister, boil, break up, bubo, bulla, bunion, burn, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, chafe, chancre, chancroid, chilblain, cold sore, convulse,… …

    Moby Thesaurus