Word Meanings - MILDEW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances. (more info) mehltau; prob. orig. meaning, honeydew; cf. Goth. milip honey. See

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MILDEW)

• Rot
• Putrefaction
• corruption
• putrescence
• mouldiness
• mildew
• decay

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MILDEW)

• Rise
• grow
• increase
• flourish
• luxuriate
• vegetate
• expand
• enlarge

Related words: (words related to MILDEW)

• DECAY
  To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay;
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• PUTRESCENCE
  The state of being putrescent; putrescent matter.
• CORRUPTION
  1. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration. The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject
• DECAYER
  A causer of decay.
• INCREASEMENT
  Increase. Bacon.
• FLOURISHINGLY
  , adv. In a flourishing manner; ostentatiously.
• EXPANDER
  Anything which causes expansion esp. a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.
• LUXURIATE
  1. To grow exuberantly; to grow to superfluous abundance. " Corn luxuriates in a better mold." Burton. 2. To feed or live luxuriously; as, the herds luxuriate in the pastures. 3. To indulge with unrestrained delight and freedom; as, to luxuriate
• FLOURISHER
  One who flourishes.
• ENLARGED
  Made large or larger; extended; swollen. -- En*lar"ged*ly, adv. -- En*lar"ged*ness, n.
• VEGETATE
  To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty outgrowths; as, a vegetating papule. (more info) 1. To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate. See dying vegetables life
• PUTREFACTION
  1. The act or the process of putrefying; the offensive decay of albuminous or other matter. Note: Putrefaction is a complex phenomenon involving a multiplicity of chemical reactions, always accompanied by, and without doubt caused by, bacteria
• ENLARGE
  Etym: 1. To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house. To enlarge their possessions of land. Locke. 2. To increase the capacity of; to expand;
• INCREASE
  To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax; as, the moon increases. Increasing function , a function whose value increases when that of the variable increases, and decreases when the latter is diminished. Syn. -- To enlarge;
• EXPAND
  To state in enlarged form; to develop; as, to expand an equation. See Expansion, 5. (more info) 1. To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight.
• INCREASER
  One who, or that, increases.
• DECAYED
  Fallen, as to physical or social condition; affected with decay; rotten; as, decayed vegetation or vegetables; a decayed fortune or gentleman. -- De*cay"ed*ness, n.
• MILDEW
  A growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances. (more info) mehltau; prob. orig. meaning, honeydew; cf. Goth. milip honey. See
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• MOLDINESS; MOULDINESS
  The state of being moldy.
• INCORRUPTION
  The condition or quality of being incorrupt or incorruptible; absence of, or exemption from, corruption. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. 1 Cor. xv.
• PREDECAY
  Premature decay.
• REVEGETATE
  To vegetate anew.
• REFLOURISH
  To flourish again.
• UNCORRUPTION
  Incorruption.