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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 uselessplay

  Familiarity information: ROTTED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ROTTED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless

Synonyms:

decayed; rotted; rotten

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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