Synonyms of the word

sphacelate

• v. (medicine) To affect with gangrene.

gangrene

• n. The necrosis or rotting of flesh, usually caused by lack of blood supply.
• n. (figuratively) A damaging or corrupting influence.
• v. (transitive) To produce gangrene in.
• v. (intransitive) To be affected with gangrene.

mortify

• v. (obsolete, transitive) To kill.
• v. (obsolete) To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
• v. To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
• v. (usually used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity.
• v. (obsolete) To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
• v. (Scotland, law, historical) To grant in mortmain.

necrose

• v. (intransitive, pathology) To become necrotic.

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.

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,…