rotten
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- adjective
- /ˈrɑːtən/
- Much of the wood veneer was rotten and crumbling, but he found enough purchase for his hands.
- rotten food
- rotten egg
- rotten apple
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Watch on YouTubeThey look good, but they just get rotten really, really quickly.
- They look good, but they just get rotten really, really quickly.
- And the scripture says you will be brought low, like a rotten carcass trampled under foot.
- It also removes hydrogen sulfide AKA rotten egg smell.
- What a smell, that rotten insides and the formaldehyde.
Examples
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After a week in the fridge, the leftovers had turned rotten and needed to be thrown away.
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Inside, many of the wooden floors were rotten and full of worms.
Academic text (2009) -
Everything we touched had a rotten smell.
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And like three days later the whole house smells like rotten fish and you have no idea why.
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It's completely rotten and it's squishy and wet.
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A couple of the crates were full of rotten ones, but they were eaten just the same.
Fiction book (1993) -
The old fruit basket was filled with rotten apples that were inedible.
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The fence post had become rotten due to years of exposure to rain and neglect.
Synonyms
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4.5
Spoiled and unsafe because it has rot or something harmful
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Spoiled and not safe to eat
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4.5
A bad, sharp smell or taste from spoiled oil
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Damaged by decay so it is no longer safe or useful
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Something like wood, teeth, or food that is soft and broken because it has rotted
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Food that is no longer safe to eat because it has gone bad
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Rotting and smelling very bad
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A very bad smell like rotten food
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
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To give someone too much kindness and gifts so they expect special treatment
Compounds
- Literature
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A small English voting area in the past where one person controlled the few voters
How Decayed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Rotten comes from the old word rot, which means 'decay' or 'to go bad', plus the ending -en that makes it a description. So a rotten apple has 'decayed' and is no longer good.