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ROTTED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rotted mean?
• ROTTED (adjective)
The adjective ROTTED has 1 sense:
1. damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless
Familiarity information: ROTTED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless
Synonyms:
Context example:
a decayed foundation
Similar:
unsound (not in good condition; damaged or decayed)
Context examples
In one part, carcases of houses, inauspiciously begun and never finished, rotted away.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Another time they chanced upon the time-graven wreckage of a hunting lodge, and amid the shreds of rotted blankets John Thornton found a long-barrelled flint-lock.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Here a yellow stream flows from rotted moose-hide sacks and sinks into the ground, with long grasses growing through it and vegetable mould overrunning it and hiding its yellow from the sun; and here he muses for a time, howling once, long and mournfully, ere he departs.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
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