rot

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We were not allowed to step around them as the ranks were formed: often we stood in water up to our ankles, and at night the barracks reeked with rotting shoe leather.

From Literature

And at last the carrion stink was explained, for around the man’s neck hung a pigeon’s softly rotting carcass.

From Literature

The air is rife with hydrogen sulfide, carrying the familiar smell of rotting eggs.

From Salon

Images of uncollected garbage rotting on Havana’s streets have been broadcast across the globe.

From Los Angeles Times

Yet Aster diagnoses them, and everyone else, with a deadly case of social media brain rot.

From Los Angeles Times