High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking.
Big without meaning, or high-sounding; bombastic, inflated; magniloquent.
To use high-sounding words; to speak or write in a pompous or ostentatious manner.
To swell or fill out; to inflate, to pad.
Verbal nonsense.
Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
Decaying matter.
To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
To spend a long period of time (in an unpleasant place).
To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
To decline in function or utility.
To (cause to) deteriorate in any way, as in morals; to corrupt.
To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.