- ROTS
- Decays
- Goes bad
- Undergoes moral decay
- Decomposes
- Putrefies
- Corrodes
- Spoils
- Turns
- Makes a big stink, in a way
- Turns sour
- Addles
- Gets spoiled
- Doesn't keep
- Gets inedible
- Goes off
- Goes past edible
- Withers
- Falls into decay
- Molders
- Turns into compost
- Morally corrupts
- Needs trashing, maybe
- Dilapidates
- Exhibits a bad 14-Down
- Sits too long, maybe
- Line up from A to Z, e.g.
- Many an old building does it
- Degenerates
- Goes to seed
- Becomes compost
- Wastes away
- Makes a stink?
- Goes sour
- Turns rancid
- Falls apart
- Molders away
- Turns to mush
- Becomes inedible
- Turns bad
- Breaks down, in a way
- Turns green, maybe
- Deteriorates
- Falls apart, in a way
- Disintegrates
- Fails to keep
- Sours
- Seriously deteriorates
- Breaks down
- Languishes
- Crumbles up
- Goes bad, as an apple
- Goes bad, as fruit
- Goes to waste
- Turns to compost
- Biodegrades
- Goes bad, as food
- Corrupts
- Fouls
- Gets gangrenous
- Debauches
- Undergoes decomposition.
- Goes to ruin.
- Goes to pot.
- Plant diseases
- Putrifies
- Hurdy-gurdies
- Erodes
- Stagnates
- Languishes in confinement
- Raises a stink?
- Goes to hell
- Languishes in the lockup
- Is no longer good
- Spoils badly
- Turns, in a sense
- Turns, perhaps
- Makes the fridge stink, perhaps
- Goes rancid
- Impaled "All That ___"
- Goes to the dogs
- Becomes compost, perhaps
- Moulders
- Becomes inedible, in a way
- Disintegrates gradually
- Deteriorates and then some
- Molders to nothing
- Becomes spongy, as wood
- Falls prey to decay
- What fruit eventually does
- Becomes a bad apple, say
- *Moves at a moderate pace
- *Orange foods
- Sits in the compost bin
- Turns putrid
- Biodegrades, say
- Languishes in prison
- Turns in the fridge
- Crumbles
- Turns colors, maybe