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How to pronounce rotting in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms breakdown, decomposition, putrefaction, rot
Type of decay
Derivation rot

Examples of rotting

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They may all look the same but they are old, a couple of days off rotting point.
From the canberratimes.com.au
The shutters are half-closed, and a school desk stands rotting in the courtyard.
From the independent.co.uk
Only instead of rotting your teeth, I have this thought that it rots your brain.
From the omaha.com
A stitch pops at lunch and, oops, a chunk of rotting tissue graces his gazpacho.
From the washingtonpost.com
Dog waste was strewn about the house and rotting food was found on the counters.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Rotting, gum-covered benches had given way to thickly varnished, unstained pine.
From the npr.org
Workers in a field of rotting cantaloupe melons on the Jensen Farms in Colorado.
From the guardian.co.uk
Rotting vegetation sparks without warning, creating idiosyncratic wind patterns.
From the time.com
By contrast, grain can be stored for several years without much risk of rotting.
From the en.wikipedia.org
More examples
  • Decompose: break down; "The bodies decomposed in the heat"
  • Putrefaction: a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
  • Decomposition: (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
  • Waste: become physically weaker; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"
  • Bunk: unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)
  • (rotted) decayed: damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless; "rotten floor boards"; "rotted beams"; "a decayed foundation"
  • Rot (German for Red) is the fifth studio album (sixth overall) by German rapper Sabrina Setlur, released by 3p Records on August 24, 2007 (see 2007 in music). It was entirely co-produced by Martin Haas and Moses Pelham, with additional contribution by Bayz Benzon. ...
  • The aviation term ROT stands for rate one turn, also known as a standard rate turn. All aircraft must be able to perform a standard rate turn.
  • In vector calculus, the curl (or rotor) is a vector operator that describes the infinitesimal rotation of a 3-dimensional vector field. At every point in the field, the curl is represented by a vector. The attributes of this vector (length and direction) characterize the rotation at that point.