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Meanings of rotted in English

Having changed its colour, smell or composition (partially or completely), due to being attacked and decomposed by microorganisms (relating to organic matter); damaged by decay.

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1
The nails were on the knuckles; the fingers had all rotted away.
Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands
2
The fruits rotted on the branches, and the leaves withered and fell.
The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories
3
After Loos dead men and horses rotted for days in the sun.
The Parts Men Play
4
There were wooden sidewalks that lasted for several years before they rotted.
Rising tide: the great mississippi flood of 1927 and how it chan...
5
The house itself was sturdy enough, though the roof had rotted badly.
When the wind blows
6
I wish I'd let you stay inside her mind until you rotted!
The Demolished Man
7
The infection developed from a fire scar and rotted out the inside.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at th...
8
The door had rotted from its fastenings and lay athwart the entrance.
Beatrix of Clare
9
The roof leaks like a sieve and the floor boards is rotted.
Janice Day at Poketown
10
They made a harsh linen from the bark of the rotted nettles.
The Winning of the West, Volume 3 / The Founding of the Trans-Al...
11
Delphiniums are especially greedy, and love nothing more than well rotted manure.
The Irish Times
12
The remains of a fishing net hung sun-rotted over a drying frame.
The White Road
13
It had rotted through in several places, and the phosphorescence shone through.
Summer of Night
14
Others in ruins, smashed and rotted and barely recognizable as human beings.
The Pariah
15
Then he rotted the orator on his lordly oblivion of one fact.
Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales
16
It had been corded round, but the cords were rotted to dust.
The Old English Baron: a Gothic Story
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