| 单词 | rotted |
| 释义 | rotted (once / 4772 pages) adj Anything that's rotted has decayed and broken down. You have to be careful when you're walking through an old, abandoned house with rotted floors. If you discover some old potatoes in the back of your refrigerator, they may be absolutely fine. Or you may want to cut out the rotted parts and use the rest. And when you walk in the woods, you'll see a lot of rotted things if you look, like rotted tree stumps and last year's layer of rotted leaves. Rotted, from the verb rot, is rooted in the Old English rotian, "to decay or putrefy." WORD FAMILYrotted: rottedest, rottedly+/rot: rots, rotted, rotting USAGE EXAMPLESYou’ve seen them in those nasty television ads - the ones with the rotted teeth, swollen gums, blackened lungs and other ugly deformities. Washington Times(Dec 21, 2016) Bridges are also in bad shape: “What Lies Beneath,” a six-minute video produced by the MDOT, shows rotted timber, rusted metal and other structural problems. Washington Times(Nov 27, 2016) “Open a bag, you know, make sure it hasn’t rotted,” Wood said. Washington Times(Oct 23, 2016) adj damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless rotted beams Syn decayed, rotten unsound not in good condition; damaged or decayed |
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