Houses do fall, people are drowned and left rotting, but the general outline of the town persists, swelling here, shrinking there, like some low but indestructible form of life.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
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Merriam-Webster
— to undergo decomposition from the action of bacteria or fungi
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Macmillan
— in the process of decaying
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Collins
— decaying as a result of bacterial or fungal action
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Other Word Forms
rot
rots
rotted
Usage
1 use of ‘rotting’ in A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster