rotte

rotte in British English (rɒt ) noun. an ancient stringed musical instrument. Collins English Dictionary.

decomposing or decaying; putrid; tainted, foul, or bad-smelling. 2. corrupt or morally offensive. 3. wretchedly bad, unpleasant, or unsatisfactory; miserable.

rotting or rotten matter: the rot and waste of a swamp. moral or social decay or corruption. Pathology. any disease characterized by decay.

decayed: The room smelled of rotten vegetables.

decomposing or decaying; putrid; tainted, foul, or bad-smelling. 2. corrupt or morally offensive. 3. wretchedly bad, unpleasant, or unsatisfactory; miserable.

Examples of rotten in a Sentence Adjective They did a rotten job. What rotten weather we're having. Adverb Those kids were spoiled rotten by their mother.

: to go to ruin : deteriorate. b. : to become morally corrupt : degenerate. transitive verb. : to cause to decompose or deteriorate with or as if with rot.

to go through decomposition rotting vegetation on the bank of the river. decaying. decomposing. disintegrating. festering.

to do whatever someone wants you to do or to give someone anything they want: The children are spoiled rotten by their grandparents.

[ˈrɒtn] adjective. 1. vegetation, egg, tooth faul ; wood morsch , faul ; fruit faul , verdorben ; (fig: = corrupt) korrupt , verdorben.

From Middle English roten, from Old Norse rotinn (“decayed, rotten”), past participle of an unrecorded verb related to Old Norse rotna (“to rot”) and Old English rotian (“to rot”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rutāną (“to rot”).

to decay, or to cause something to decay or weaken: [ I ] The fallen apples rotted on the ground. [ T ] Dampness rotted the old wood.