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(noun) degeneracy, depravation, depravity, corruption
moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
the luxury and corruption among the upper classes; moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration; its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity; Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction
(noun) decomposition, rot, rotting
(biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
(noun) rot
a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor