Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction. · Decaying matter. · Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs. · Verbal nonsense.
To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria. · To decline in function or utility. · To (cause to) deteriorate in any way, as in morals; to corrupt. · To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.
Inherited from Middle English roten, rotten, from Old English rotian (“to rot, become corrupted, ulcerate, putrefy”), from Proto-West Germanic *rotēn, from Proto-Germanic *rutāną (“to rot”).
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