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rotted

/rot/US // rɒt //UK // (rɒt) //

腐烂的,烂掉的,烂掉了,腐朽的

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v.无主动词 verb
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    rot·ted, rot·ting.

    • : to undergo decomposition; decay.
    • : to deteriorate, disintegrate, fall, or become weak due to decay.
    • : to languish, as in confinement.
    • : to become morally corrupt or offensive.
v.有主动词 verb
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    rot·ted, rot·ting.

    • : to cause to rot: Dampness rots wood.
    • : to cause moral decay in; cause to become morally corrupt.
    • : to ret.
n.名词 noun
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    • : the process of rotting.
    • : the state of being rotten; decay; putrefaction: the rot of an old house.
    • : rotting or rotten matter: the rot and waste of a swamp.
    • : moral or social decay or corruption.
    • : Pathology. any disease characterized by decay.
    • : Plant Pathology. any of various forms of decay produced by fungi or bacteria.any disease so characterized.
    • : Veterinary Pathology. a bacterial infection of sheep and cattle characterized by decay of the hoofs, caused by Fusobacterium necrophorum in cattle and Bacteroides nodosus in sheep.
    • : nonsense.
interj.感叹词 interjection
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    Synonyms & Antonyms

    verbcorrode, deteriorate

    Examples

    • Their house, which has never been painted, is sagging and rotted and porous.

    • The beasts have rotted in their dung, the barns are destroyed, the storehouses are broken down: because the corn is confounded.

    • Once there had been a path to the road, but this was now overgrown, and the doorsteps had rotted away.

    • Driftwood lined the shore, and a number of dead spruces, which had not yet rotted, furnished them with an ample supply of fuel.

    • Men rotted like sheep, and died at the feet of that Gold whom they stormed here in his fortress; and some alas met a worse fate.

    • At Charleston, South Carolina, they allowed the tea to be landed, but not sold; and it rotted in the cellars of the store-houses.