Main entry: putrefaction, degeneracy, depravation, depravity, corruption
Definition: moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
Usage: 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
Main entry: decomposition, putrefaction, rot, rotting
Definition: (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
Main entry: putrefaction, rot
Definition: a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor