rotting
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3.4
- noun
- /ˈrɑːtɪŋ/
:
descomposición
- The shelter is littered with rotting and crumbling wood from the coffins.
- rotting wood
- rotting leaves
- rotting wood smell
Or at least prevent your food from unplanned rotting.
- Or at least prevent your food from unplanned rotting.
- Because if you wash this, it's going to start the process of rotting.
- So rot the the only solution we've ever had as a robust solution to rotting is dying and replacement, right?
Examples
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Now you got a quarter million dead fish rotting in a river in the middle of hot August.
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Then the rotting would begin.
Fiction book (1997) -
Oh, sorry to cut things short, guys, but I have some rotting eggs to check on.
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The rotting must have progressed further than he realized.
Fiction book (2002) -
I'm not worried about the rotting now, I'm worried about something else.
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The normal rotting of tissue, plus the bugs, plus...
Fiction book (2002) -
His mouth tasted of rotting fruit and decaying meat.
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Outside her loft, the stink of singed oil and rotting vegetables settled.
Fiction book (2000) -
She caught a scent of wet bark: poplar, dogwood, rotting leaves, a trace of wild sage.
Fiction book (1999) -
The strong smell of rotting food filled the kitchen after the power went out.
Synonyms
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1.6
The breaking down of things like food or wood by bacteria and mold
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5.3
Breaking dead plants and animals into simpler material by bacteria and fungi
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4.1
A process in which a substance is broken into simpler parts by chemicals or living things
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4.6
A state when food or wood goes bad
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8.9
The rotting of dead plants or animals that makes a bad smell
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4.6
A process where living things like bacteria break substances into natural parts
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9.9
A state of rotting that gives a bad smell
Antonyms
How Decayed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word rotting comes from the simple English root rot, which means 'decay' or 'to go bad'. So rotting is the process of plants, fruit, or other organic matter breaking down and often smelling bad.