Rotting

Quick meaning: Rotting is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of rot.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of rot.

More Meanings

1. The process by which something rots.
2. Material that has rotted.

Example Sentences

[…] the mould on the boles of the other [trees], that lyes commonly there, and is made of the annual rottings of their own leaves.

From the compost rinds and rottings, from the garbage peels, from the shadows' darkness, darkness, this guttered meal and all its redolence.

Word Forms

• rottings

Synonyms for rotting

Depending on context, synonyms include putrefaction, moldering, rotten, mouldering, rot, decomposition.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mouldering, rotten, putrefaction, decomposition, decomposing, moldering.

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