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rotted
adjective as in crumbly
Example Sentences
Their house, which has never been painted, is sagging and rotted and porous.
The beasts have rotted in their dung, the barns are destroyed, the storehouses are broken down: because the corn is confounded.
Once there had been a path to the road, but this was now overgrown, and the doorsteps had rotted away.
Driftwood lined the shore, and a number of dead spruces, which had not yet rotted, furnished them with an ample supply of fuel.
Men rotted like sheep, and died at the feet of that Gold whom they stormed here in his fortress; and some alas met a worse fate.
At Charleston, South Carolina, they allowed the tea to be landed, but not sold; and it rotted in the cellars of the store-houses.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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