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as in deteriorating
to become worse or of less value
the house slowly fell into disrepair and rotted
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as in decaying
to go through decomposition
rotting vegetation on the bank of the river
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Recent Examples of rotting
Matthew Cupelli, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Oct. 2025
Kirk Cousins is rotting on the Falcons’ bench.
—Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
This includes leaves, acorns, seed pods, twigs, and even fallen branches, unless your neighbor was neglecting a diseased and rotting tree.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 30 Sep. 2025
Winter is prime time for snuggling up in bed, and the blur of frosty, lazy days in between Christmas and New Years are prime time for bed rotting.
—Brandi Fuller, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Sep. 2025
But a lot of risk in eating a rotting carcass that has sat in the sun a day too long.
—Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
There’s concerts, there’s dinners, there’s brunches, there’s rotting time at home.
—Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2025
There, surrounding apple orchards and clumps of fallen, rotting fruit furnish the film with a rather literal visual metaphor, to which Etzler returns a bit too often.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 24 Sep. 2025
One in three, amit to bed rotting—staying in bed for hours on end—to cope.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
Garbage, rotting food with bugs and clothing stacked close to the ceiling were also seen in most areas of the house.
—Matthew Cupelli, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Oct. 2025
Kirk Cousins is rotting on the Falcons’ bench.
—Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
This includes leaves, acorns, seed pods, twigs, and even fallen branches, unless your neighbor was neglecting a diseased and rotting tree.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 30 Sep. 2025
Winter is prime time for snuggling up in bed, and the blur of frosty, lazy days in between Christmas and New Years are prime time for bed rotting.
—Brandi Fuller, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Sep. 2025
But a lot of risk in eating a rotting carcass that has sat in the sun a day too long.
—Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
There’s concerts, there’s dinners, there’s brunches, there’s rotting time at home.
—Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2025
There, surrounding apple orchards and clumps of fallen, rotting fruit furnish the film with a rather literal visual metaphor, to which Etzler returns a bit too often.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 24 Sep. 2025
One in three, amit to bed rotting—staying in bed for hours on end—to cope.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rotting
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Mann’s Heat starred Al Pacino as a hardened Los Angeles cop named Vincent Hanna who, ignoring his deteriorating personal life, is obsessed with tracking down career criminal Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro), who wants to pull off one last heist before retiring.—
Mia Galuppo,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Oct. 2025
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Many remain acutely aware of how their abilities are deteriorating.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
7 Oct. 2025
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For another, there’s the DESI data, our best large-scale structure data at present, which seems to slightly favor the presence of evolving (and, in particular, decaying or weakening) dark energy.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
3 Oct. 2025
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As a result, when animals died and sank, their soft tissues were occasionally preserved instead of being consumed or decaying.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Its decay produces flashes of light in the detector that can mimic potential dark matter signals.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Oct. 2025
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These radioisotopes spontaneously transform into different elements and release radiation – energetic particles or light – in a process called radioactive decay.—
Andrea Richard,
The Conversation,
2 Oct. 2025
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The recent protests were triggered by the deaths of several pregnant women following routine C-sections in the coastal city of Agadir, spotlighting the crumbling healthcare system.—
Kara Fox,
CNN Money,
4 Oct. 2025
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With gloomy-yet-gorgeous accordion melodies driven against acoustic guitars and a tololoche, the song showcases the vulnerability of a crumbling relationship through an emotional dialogue between two lovers.—
Tere Aguilera,
Billboard,
3 Oct. 2025
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This prompts the straw to start decomposing, ensuring the bales won’t overheat and burn your plants later.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
1 Oct. 2025
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Gates visited Koie’s mountainside studio in Gifu with Koie’s daughter, who shared that her father would be okay with the studio decomposing into the mountain.—
Elizabeth Cantrell,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Of the 20 dead cats, eight were too decayed for a necropsy exam, which determines the cause of death of a dead animal and any associated diseases or injuries.—
Marina Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
7 Aug. 2025
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The breakthrough came when researchers focused on coelomic fluid, the internal liquid surrounding the sea stars’ organs, rather than tissue from decayed specimens.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The lack of monthly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics hasn’t kept Wall Street completely in the dark on what’s happening in the job market as private sources indicate a worsening picture, according Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi.—
Danny Bakst,
Fortune,
5 Oct. 2025
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And the arrival of some suspicious new neighbors presents an opportunity that solves one problem while worsening the other.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
3 Oct. 2025
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The electrical grid is disintegrating, with hours-long blackouts common across the island.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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It’s been ripe for restoration since the 1970s and has sat, empty and disintegrating, for most of that time.—
Christopher Bonanos,
Curbed,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Rotting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rotting. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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