THESAURUS
bad, cankered, carious, corrupt, decayed, festering, foul, gangrened, gangrenous, gone bad, mortified, necrosed, necrotic, peccant, putrefied, putrescent, putrid, rotten, rotting, sphacelated, spoiled, suppurating, suppurative, ulcerated
ROGET THESAURUS
Decomposition
N
decomposition, analysis, dissection, resolution, catalysis, dissolution, corruption, dispersion, disjunction, disintegration,
decomposed, catalytic, analytical, resolvent, separative, solvent.