rotting
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 7
Definition of rotting
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of rot
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verb
- (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of rot
noun
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The process by which something rots.
“[…] the mould on the boles of the other [trees], that lyes commonly there, and is made of the annual rottings of their own leaves.”
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Material that has rotted.
“From the compost rinds and rottings, from the garbage peels, from the shadows' darkness, darkness, this guttered meal and all its redolence.”
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Etymology
From Middle English rotynge (“rotting”), from Old English rotung; equivalent to rot + -ing. Conflated with Middle English rotende, present participle of roten (“to rot”), from Old English rotiende, present participle of rotian (“to rot”).
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