| 单词 | rotting away |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrotting away b. With adverbs, as rotting away, rotting down. Also figurative. ΚΠ 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Tabificus, That bringeth to consumption, pyninge, or rottinge away. 1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1248 They are good for those that haue the phthisike, or rotting away of the lungs. 1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman June xi. 123 Its causing the Diminution of the Milk, the Rotting away of the Creature's Feet, and the infecting of other sound ones. 1838 Farmers' Reg. 1 Dec. 544/1 An interesting account of the sinking..which is more properly the rotting away of vegetable soil, after its being dried and cultivated. 1851 New Hampsh. Jrnl. Med. 2 44 The rotting down of the lungs, cancer of the stomach, or ulceration of the small intestines, have as much to do with matter as with spirit. 1901 Green Bag 13 40/2 He [sc. Jephthah] died of a rotting away of his limbs. 1916 J. Galsworthy Sheaf 269 Economically..such rotting-down of the boys is grievously short-sighted. 2008 Times (Nexis) 11 Oct. 17 A lot of work to be done. There's the stocking up, the dying back and rotting down: preparing for the winter. < as lemmas |
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