rottened

comparative more rottened · superlative most rottened

1. nonstandardRotten.

   And even if reality is wed with plans inside my neighbor’s head, the ruins will, by then, be rottened.

   2012 November 11, Gordon Emmerson, “A Thousand Years”, in Healthy Parts, Happy Self: 3 Steps to Like Yourself, →ISBN, unit 1 (How things are), chapter 2 (Becoming Free), page 14

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   First I rolled in rottened peaches…yeah, that’s what I did…and then I went to Summerland and rolled in the seaslime grass.

   2006, Mignon C. Reynolds, “To Believe and to See”, in Life as Bonkers: A Canine Adventure of Discovery, Friendship, Interplanetary Metaphysics, and Very Bad Odors, 2nd edition, Portland, Ore.: Max Limited, →ISBN, page 40

   Specimen tied with waterproof label should be kept in fresh water until it gets rottened (1-5 days). Clean the rottened specimen with a strong jet of freshwater.

   2012 May, K. Venkataraman, Ch. Satyanarayana, “Difficulties in Coral Identification”, in Coral Identification Manual, Kolkata: Zoological Survey of India, →ISBN, page 32

   Instead, I buried them to make maggots. I’d read about this in one of the angling books, from the main library. When I dug up the rottened and softened flesh, some weeks later, it had worked. The skulls and teeth and shrunken eyes were recognisable.

   2014, Ian Stephen, “Pike”, in A Book of Death and Fish, Glasgow: Saraband, →ISBN, book 1 (Migrations), page 49

   She had pressed a finger against his wrist and observed, “You are the color of rottened, Frank. Like under my poppa’s nails has.”

   2017, Stephen King, Owen King, chapter 3, in Sleeping Beauties: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, section 6, page 73