rot away

to decompose; to decompose and fall away. The fallen trees rotted away and surrendered their nutrients to the soil. As the wood rotted away, it became rich humus.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Shena	SHEE-nə	English (Modern)
Sithembile	-	Southern African, Zulu
Palmiro	-	Italian
Pompeo	pom-PE-o	Italian
MiloŠ	-	Czech, Slovak, Serbian, Slovene, Croatian, Macedonian
Janina	yah-NEE-nah (Polish, German), YAH-nee-nah (Finnish)	Polish, Finnish, German, Swedish, Lithuanian