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rotted

rotted

16 3.0
Damaged by decay so it is no longer safe or useful
  • adjective
  • /ˈrɒtɪd/
: podrido
  • The garden was filled with rotted leaves that needed to be cleared away to prevent pests.

It's just a rotting corpse in the back seat.

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Examples

  • But any wall that was there was decrepit, it was gone, it was rusted, it was rotted, it was laying on the ground.

  • And we then will take rotted straw in the early season and we will load that straw into our beds.

  • You know good and well them little rotted evil little hell bound kids.

  • Napoleon's corpse is rotted in France.

  • And then I also got this very sad melanochrysism that all the roots rotted off as well.

  • Thank the Rotted Gods she's mine.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Rotted and blood clotted and ruined.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • I don't like it like a old rotted Starbucks pumpkin latte.

  • Many the rotted bowl that went unbowed, many the virginal to rust unplucked.

  • The fruit sat out in the sun for too long and became rotted, making it inedible.

Synonyms

ruined
vsrotted
125 3.1

Badly damaged so it cannot be fixed or returned to how it was before

tends to describe damage from gradual breakdown rather than total irreparable loss
rotten
vsrotted
70 1.0

Gone bad and no longer good to eat or use

may mean damaged enough to be unsound but not always extremely severe
decayed
vsrotted
16 3.9

Something like wood, teeth, or food that is soft and broken because it has rotted

focuses on the state of being unsound or useless after damage
putrid
vsrotted
13 7.0

Rotting and smelling very bad

focuses on being damaged or unusable rather than on any bad smell

Antonyms

fresh
557 1.0

Recently made or gathered food that is not spoiled

sound
77 2.3

In good condition and safe to use

How Decayed

putrid
13 7.0
rotted
16 3.0
decayed
16 3.9
to decompose
  • Specialized
45 4.4

Surface Forms

rotted positive

Morphology

rotted = rot (transparent) = rot + ed

A straightforward past-participle/adjectival formation from the verb 'rot' meaning 'decayed'.

Etymology

Rotted comes from the simple word rot, which means 'decay' or 'to go bad'. So rotted describes something that has broken down and become unsafe or useless.