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UK
/ɹˈɒtɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈɹɑtɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈɹɑtɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
How To Use rotting In A Sentence
- The son of a diplomat, he has spent much of his life globe-trotting.
- No other athlete in Britain has undergone such an exhaustive, globetrotting search for success. Times, Sunday Times
- The mangroves' waterlogged roots decayed into peat, and the peat's acidity and lack of oxygen kept the wood from rotting.
- First we'd have a trotting race, then another one going a fair bit faster. FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
- The noonday sun beat down fiercely; dusty air carried the stink of rotting garlic after a prolonged dry spell.
- The arrival of warm weather raises the specter of disease and increased rat infestations caused by rotting garbage.
- Around him graves crept up the hillside in a mishmash of stone headstones and rotting wooden crosses.
- A globe-trotting, business-building commerce secretary, he operated on the theory that a good defense is a good offense.
- This was true, but also significant, because by trotting out the figure of 20%, he created an expectation and sound byte that will come back to haunt him and the Chinese currency at the end of the summer if unattained. Diane Francis: Chinese Cheating
- All that trotting off like dazed sheep to get some sumac/nduja/ harissa and extra avocados just in case. Times, Sunday Times