Read full poem →' There the smouldering fire of fever creeps across
the rotted floor,
And the crowded couch of incest in the warrens of
Dictionary Entry
To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
In a Sentence
“The apple left in the cupboard all that time had started to rot.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
away rottedmanure rotted. rottedwood rottedrotted well
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Poetry examples for “rotted”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →A second arch is a wall
To separate our souls from rotted cables
Of stale greenness.
Read full poem →Across sombre pools.
The damp green smell of rotted wood;
And a heron that cries from out the water.
Read full poem →Cressid could love again; Dido,
Rotted in state, is restless still;
You leave me much against my will.
Read full poem →Cressid could love again; Dido,
Rotted in state, is restless still:
You leave me much against my will.
Read full poem →A second arch is a wall
To separate our souls from rotted cables
Of stale greenness.
Read full poem →Across sombre pools.
The damp green smell of rotted wood;
And a heron that cries from out the water.
Read full poem →It is the moss, that wholly hides
The rotted old Oak-stump.