To disintegrate or come off due to decay.
1 Georg Augustin's body would slowly rot away while he was still alive.
2 The skin on the nose and chin had begun to rot away .
3 They make your pancreas rot away , and you die writhing in pain.
4 Then the flesh began to rot away , and the victim died within hours.
5 But I'm not going to sit here and rot away .
6 She would rather it rot away around her than move.
7 Here... Those that truly die just rot away until bones are all that's left.
8 She had no right to doom a human soul to rot away in its clay.
9 Nature waits, and presently the trespass signs rot away , one arm falls off, and lo!
10 They just rot away behind their heavily painted faces.
11 The whole ship will rot away around them.
12 Komani is now left to rot away , under perpetually piling garbage containing animal corpses and bones.
13 And the underpinnings of democracy rot away .
14 The late Miss Davison, and her dead friends, can rot away in their graves as they please.
15 Your guts will probably rot away now.
16 The stumps of course remained, and it would take six or eight years before they would rot away .
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