as in rotting
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as in deteriorated
to become worse or of less value
the house slowly fell into disrepair and rotted
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as in decomposed
to go through decomposition
rotting vegetation on the bank of the river
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Recent Examples of rotted
Bestreviews,
Chicago Tribune,
8 June 2026
Many grapes become too rotted and are left to wither away.
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John Mariani,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
Elmira Aliieva,
NBC news,
18 June 2026
The storm hit Jamaica on August 12, splintering three hundred homes, and 90 percent of banana crops rotted to black in the post-storm humidity.
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Literary Hub,
16 June 2026
Now the pages are yellowed; the rubber band rotted away years ago.
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Peter Hessler,
New Yorker,
31 May 2026
That last line is a nod for the brain-rotted among us.
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Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
28 Apr. 2026
Uncollected garbage rotted in heaps, and people cued outside of bakeries for their daily government ration of bread.
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Kate Linthicum,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Apr. 2026
Conley could’ve rotted away in Chicago.
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Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
16 Apr. 2026
The root system is completely rotted out of it, so winds, rain and anything can push that right over.
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Joe Holden,
CBS News,
17 Mar. 2026
How to Plant Bare Root Roses Carefully inspect the roots and cut off any that are broken, cracked, rotted, or show signs of insect damage.
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Nadia Hassani,
The Spruce,
26 Feb. 2026
Adjective
Inspect fences and perform any repairs or maintenance, such as reinforcing posts or replacing rotted sections.
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Bestreviews,
Chicago Tribune,
8 June 2026
Many grapes become too rotted and are left to wither away.
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John Mariani,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
Verb
While the timber has long since rotted away, the posts lined up to point directly at the rising sun during the summer solstice and the setting sun at the winter solstice — in the same way as Stonehenge.
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Elmira Aliieva,
NBC news,
18 June 2026
The storm hit Jamaica on August 12, splintering three hundred homes, and 90 percent of banana crops rotted to black in the post-storm humidity.
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Literary Hub,
16 June 2026
Now the pages are yellowed; the rubber band rotted away years ago.
—
Peter Hessler,
New Yorker,
31 May 2026
That last line is a nod for the brain-rotted among us.
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Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
28 Apr. 2026
Uncollected garbage rotted in heaps, and people cued outside of bakeries for their daily government ration of bread.
—
Kate Linthicum,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Apr. 2026
Conley could’ve rotted away in Chicago.
—
Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
16 Apr. 2026
The root system is completely rotted out of it, so winds, rain and anything can push that right over.
—
Joe Holden,
CBS News,
17 Mar. 2026
How to Plant Bare Root Roses Carefully inspect the roots and cut off any that are broken, cracked, rotted, or show signs of insect damage.
—
Nadia Hassani,
The Spruce,
26 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rotted
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Discard any that look dead or decayed.
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The farm buildings on the property—long verandas, shearing sheds, and concrete kennels—are old and decayed, remnants from long before the group showed up.
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Air support also was grounded the previous afternoon as conditions deteriorated.
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The situation in Haiti has deteriorated since armed groups took control of most of Port-au-Prince in 2024.
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Remains of dogs too decomposed to be recovered were also found in the same field, the sheriff's office said.
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Every project should be decomposed into tasks, with explicit categorization of which are human, AI or hybrid.
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To be fair, the DCEU, the preceding web of films, had nearly half of its movies land rotten scores.
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Big Red might be a braggart, a bully and rotten to the core, but Lasdun invokes Thomas De Quincey’s neat point about how a man’s capacity to rob says nothing about his propensity to murder.
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The Continental Army went into the battle with a two-to-one advantage in numbers, but when most of the American militia crumbled in the face of a British bayonet charge, Pumphrey's unit was outnumbered, Wise says.
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The fronts of two rowhomes crumbled to the ground Monday night as severe weather hit the Delaware Valley.
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The meteor — which is thought to be a small chunk of a much larger asteroid — was probably too small and traveled too fast to survive atmospheric entry and instead disintegrated entirely, leaving no parts of it to fall to the ground in the form of meteorites.
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Any potential scoring opportunity in the fifth inning disintegrated after Dalton Rushing’s leadoff walk.
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The district also could be in for other major changes in the coming years, including the opening of a few new schools to replace multiple decaying, underenrolled schools.
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The Unraveling There isn’t an easy answer as to why Sudan has descended once again into civil war.
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Wilde’s 2022 psychological thriller, headlined by Florence Pugh and Harry Styles, descended into tabloid chaos amid rampant speculation over an apparent feud between Pugh and Wilde, plus the romance between Wilde and Styles that allegedly originated during production.
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“Rotted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rotted. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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