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rotten
(encz) | rotten,mizerný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
rotten
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rotten
(encz) | rotten,zkažený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Rotten
(gcide) | Rotten \Rot"ten\, a. [Icel. rotinn; akin to Sw. rutten, Dan.
radden. See Rot.]
Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten
meat. Hence:
(a) Offensive to the smell; fetid; disgusting.
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You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate
As reek of the rotten fens. --Shak.
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(b) Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous;
unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone. "The deepness of
the rotten way." --Knolles.
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Rotten borough. See under Borough.
Rotten stone (Min.), a soft stone, called also Tripoli
(from the country from which it was formerly brought),
used in all sorts of finer grinding and polishing in the
arts, and for cleaning metallic substances. The name is
also given to other friable siliceous stones applied to
like uses.
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Syn: Putrefied; decayed; carious; defective; unsound;
corrupt; deceitful; treacherous.
[1913 Webster] -- Rot"ten*ly, adv. -- Rot"ten*ness,
n.
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rotten
(wn) | rotten
adj 1: very bad; "a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world" [syn:
icky, crappy, lousy, rotten, shitty,
stinking, stinky]
2: damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless; "rotten floor
boards"; "rotted beams"; "a decayed foundation" [syn:
decayed, rotten, rotted]
3: having decayed or disintegrated; usually implies foulness;
"dead and rotten in his grave" |
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