Rotting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ROTTING in dictionary:

VERB:
• ROT, to decompose
• (chiefly of animal or vegetable matter) decay or cause to decay by the action of bacteria and fungi; decompose
• gradually deteriorate, especially through neglect
• make fun of; tease
NOUN:
• the process of decaying
• rotten or decayed matter.
• any of a number of fungal or bacterial diseases that cause tissue deterioration, especially in plants.
• liver rot in sheep.
• a process of deterioration; a decline in standards
• corruption on the part of officials.
• nonsense; rubbish
• (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• present participle of rot

Words related to ROTTING

rot3 rots4 rotted7

Words that contain ROTTING

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How to use ROTTING in a sentence

• From them there comes a smell of rotting leather, as though the infection spreads.
• But what could he do in the country with that idle fellow, whom he himself had taught to hate the earth and to sneer at the old rotting mill.
• Across the moat, which led to the gateway of what were formerly the inner fortifications, were piles of rotting horseflesh.
• He needed help on the place in many ways, as, for instance, with the herring nets that hung rotting in the sheds.
• Two leagues were quickly traversed ere yonder distant belt of trees was reached, where the dry leaves lay rotting on the ground, and there was not an atom of scent.
• It was continually wet at planting time, and so cold, and there has been so little sun that potatoes are rotting in the fields already, and the harvest will be meagre.
• A creek ran between the court-house and the home of Judge Knox, who was the judge of the court, and over this a few rough boards had been loosely laid across two rotting logs.
• These invest the rotting tissues liked an elastic garment, but are always in a state of movement.
• It was a rotting, one-room dwelling, with a wide doorway opening upon a small, bare strip of ground where a gnarled oak grew.
• Rotting in the stores of this same custom-house are two grand pianos and an electric omnibus.
• Children pine and even die for fruit in the cities, while a hundred miles away thousands of barrels of apples are rotting on the ground.
• The rowboat men had three hundred salmon, and they cursed Folly Bay with a fine flow of epithet as they took their rotting fish outside the Cove and dumped them in the sea.
• But this poison, this rotting from the core, is far more dangerous to the Republic.
• I cannot say whether the cause be in climate, in the process of rotting, or what else, but the fact is certain, that there is no American water-rotted hemp in the market.
• You can imagine it, the dust gathering, the curtains rotting, in the darkness and at times the old man sitting there with his head running on days long since dead.
• But will my gold recall the vital spark into those cold forms that, stricken by my steel or bullet, are rotting in their graves? The masterpiece of God I have destroyed.
• Their thin, khaki, sweat-stained uniforms are rotting on them.
• And her poor little feet with the rotting shoes upon them moved delicately, as if they trod the impalpable air.
• The planks keep rotting, and have to be replaced continually.

Similar words containing ROTT without suffix ing

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