Put into a heap to decay

Usage examples of composted.

We composted Miss Lockridge's body entire, as specified on the manifest.

Her will specified that her remains should be composted and used to fertilize flowers.

The soil had been lightly turned and composted around each one in a circle that would just contain the branches, about where the rootlets would reach.

Where she grew up, organic waste was composted to become next year's fertilizer.

Maybe it should be collected and composted, rather than left lying on the streets.

I’m not yet sure where the best location would be for a composting operation, but I know that as a gardener, I would pay for manure composted with straw.

I'm not yet sure where the best location would be for a composting operation, but I know that as a gardener, I would pay for manure composted with straw.

Or by eating a plant that was fertilized with composted flesh from an infected animal.

Standing, he brushes the dark dirt from his hands, noting again the difference between the carefully composted soil of the garden and the clay of the yard.

I carry, behind the ruins of my face, inside my brain, the smell of excrement and pounded, flayed flesh stirred deep into the mud of the streets, the composted stench of decaying scrip and bank drafts and certificates of mortgage in the civil registry, and in the merchants’ bank, and of course the bitter, corrosive wash against my bandages of shingle, lath, and floorboard as they burned.