rotting
腐烂的,腐朽的,腐烂,腐烂性
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Examples
The beds were crammed together, and a man in the middle of the room had spots of flesh on his body that obviously were rotting.
Only a rounded bar and three rotting bathtubs remain in the decrepit club.
Today, ton-sized pieces of lumber lay rotting in the cool morning air.
What does our desperation to get a nuclear deal at all costs say to the modern-day Iranian Solzhenitsyns rotting in Evin prison?
One woman dying on his floor, another rotting in a suitcase: An alleged killer stuns the financial community in Hong Kong.
There was much excess tobacco in Virginia itself, some tobacco even rotting on the farms.
Sometimes the rain soaks into the stalk, rotting it so that the leaves fall off, injuring them for wrappers.
One instant more, and there were glimpses below us of the rotting pine copses and mossy bogs surrounding Petersburg.
Through a magnificent colonnade I could see a second court on one side, where were the offices; the door was rotting.
It was littered with rotting straw and plum stones and melon seeds.