Vocabulary Word
Word: decomposition
Definition: decay; V. decompose: decay; break and separate into simple parts
Definition: decay; V. decompose: decay; break and separate into simple parts
Sentences Containing 'decomposition'
The uncontrollable and hopeless mass of decomposition so engendered, would have polluted the air, even if poverty and deprivation had not loaded it with their intangible impurities; the two bad sources combined made it almost insupportable.
The refuse was not wholly vegetable either, for I myself saw a shoe, a doubled-up saucepan, a black bonnet, and an umbrella, in various stages of decomposition, as I was looking out for the number I wanted.
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