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# rotted

«rotted» in Mova's school dictionary: **the past form of «rot»: something rotted when it went bad…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb form (past of rot: rot, rots, rotted, rotting); adjective (rotted — rare, usually «rotten»)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Rotted is the past form of «rot»: something rotted when it went bad and broke down slowly because of germs, fungi, damp or age. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rotted/#m1)

2) As an adjective it means decayed, but people usually say «rotten». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rotted/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons decay shows how bacteria and fungi break down dead plants and food into soil (compost). In everyday life fruit rots, wood rots in the damp, and sugar can make teeth rot. Phrases: «rotted away», «rotted wood», «rot your teeth».

### examples

- The apples rotted on the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rotted/#x1)
- The old wooden fence rotted in the rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rotted/#x2)
- The leaves rotted and turned into compost. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rotted/#x3)
- His teeth rotted because he ate too many sweets and didn't brush. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rotted/#x4)
- The bridge was unsafe because the planks had rotted. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rotted/#x5)
- We watched a pumpkin as it rotted over three weeks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rotted/#x6)
- He sat down there quite naked, for all his clothes had rotted and dropped off inside the fish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rotted/#x7)

### note

Past of «rot» with a double t: rot → rotted, rotting. The usual adjective is «rotten» («a rotten egg»), which also means very bad in slang. Never eat food that looks or smells rotten.

### In the corpora

- [Bogs today show the first step: peat, partly rotted plants that people in Ireland and Scotland cut and burned on their fires.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/59-coal-oil-and-gas/3/)
- [Peat is partly rotted plant matter in bogs, the first step towards coal, and was burned for fuel in Ireland and Scotland.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/59-coal-oil-and-gas/19/)
- [Humus is the dark material made from rotted plants and animals, and it is rich in nutrients.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/63-soil-and-what-lives-in-it/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rotted» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rotted/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.