rotten

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  1. adjective Being in a state of putrefaction or decay; decomposed.
  2. adjective Having a foul odor resulting from or suggestive of decay; putrid.
  3. adjective Made weak or unsound by rot: rotten floorboards.

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  • You'd get rotten, then you'd mortify and die. —  The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance
  • He is vain of being rotten, and talks publicly of having committed crimes which he ought to be hanged for by the laws of his country There are several others whose brains are hurt with pride, and whom I may hereafter attempt to recover; but shall conclude my present list with an old woman, who is just dropping into her grave, that talks of nothing but her birth. —  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II
  • These pillars would have fallen long ago if they had not been kept in repair by the angekoks, who try to prove the truth of what they say by bringing home bits of them--rotten pieces of wood. —  Red Rooney The Last of the Crew
  • It did indeed shelter them from the immediate shower of masses, even the smaller of which were heavy enough to have killed a walrus; but at that advanced period of spring the bergs were becoming, so to speak, rotten, and liable at any moment to fall to pieces and float away in the form of pack-ice. —  Red Rooney The Last of the Crew
  • He thinks they are all rotten, and that sort of thing. —  The Dictator
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English roten, from Old Norse rotinn.

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  1. from Middle English roten, roton, rotin, from Icelandic rotinn = Swedish rutten = Danish raaden, rotten; in form past participle of a lost verb, Icelandic as if *rjōta, rot: see rot.
 

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