decompose

“It is this sort of shell—a completely decomposing, ineffective thing.”

This creates a powerful feedback loop: more nutrients lead to more algae, which consume more oxygen as they decompose, which in turn releases even more nutrients.

The scent of a body varies depending on a person's body fat, he said, even if they have decomposed for the same amount of time.

He described thousands of bodies lying in front of houses and "the smell of gas and decomposed bodies".

Photographs released by Gaza's medical authorities show some of the bodies badly decomposed, and arriving in civilian clothes or naked except for underwear, some with multiple signs of injury.