Concept cluster: Physical processes > Decay or deterioration
v
(now rare) To taint; to corrupt, sully.
v
(transitive) To besmear with gore.
v
Obsolete spelling of bemoisten [(transitive) Make moist.]
adj
Foul; dirty, soiled.
v
To defame or sully.
v
(transitive) To villainize, to present in a damaging light.
v
(intransitive, copulative) To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.
v
To tarnish (reputation, character, etc.); to defame.
n
(by extension) A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To infect, or be infected, with noble rot (Botrytis cinerea).
v
(transitive) To soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association.
n
A wine fault characterized by a set of undesirable smells or tastes, sometimes caused by tribromoanisole.
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(intransitive) To become soiled.
n
The act of corroding or consuming some substance.
n
(obsolete) Something which grows out of the body; hair, nails etc.
adj
contaminated with flyblows
v
To become marked with signs of age or decay.
v
To enliven, to spice (up).
n
Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove.
v
To produce significantly more than the normal amount of saliva.
v
(transitive) To mix with saliva, as when eating.
n
(figuratively) Anything that induces change, especially a corrupting or vitiating change.
v
(figuratively, now rare) Synonym of taint.
v
(intransitive) To turn sour and coagulate from too long standing, as milk.
v
(transitive) To taint with mildew.
v
(intransitive, rare) To salivate.
n
(medicine, chiefly dated) Excessive secretion or flow of saliva; hypersalivation; drooling.
v
To become filled with a pus-like or bile-like substance.
v
(intransitive) To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust.
adj
Marked or corroded by rust.
v
(transitive) To render heavy or cohesive.
v
(intransitive) To show eager anticipation at the expectation of something.
v
(transitive) To cause (someone or something) to become sallow.
n
(UK, obsolete, dialect) An infection.
adj
Affected with the smut fungus.
v
To make invalid, to ruin.
n
Making or becoming dirty; soiling, staining.
adj
(obsolete) Apt to stain.
adj
(dialectal or obsolete) Dirty; soiled; sullied; defiled.
adj
Stained or marked with soot
v
To blacken or make dirty with soot.
n
Deposits of dirt or bacteria on the body, discharges; bacterial deposits on the teeth or tongue.
v
(intransitive) Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
v
To taint or tarnish someone's character or reputation
v
(intransitive) To give an impression of dishonesty, untruth, or sin.
n
(obsolete) foulness; filth
n
(archaic) A gradual loss of flesh due to disease.
n
A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.
n
(obsolete) Dirtiness; uncleanliness; contamination, tainting.
v
(transitive) To compromise, damage, soil, or sully.

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