[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

retting \ret"ting\, n.
   1. the act or process of preparing flax for use by soaking,
      maceration, and kindred processes; -- also called
      rotting. see ret. --ure.
      1913 webster

   2. a place where flax is retted; a rettery. --ure.
      1913 webster
see also:
rotting ret 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

rot \rot\, v. i. imp.  p. p. rotted; p. pr.  vb. n.
   rotting. oe. rotien, as. rotian; akin to d. rotten, prov.
   g. rotten, ohg. rozz?n, g. r"osten to steep flax, icel.
   rotna to rot, sw. ruttna, dan. raadne, icel. rottin rotten.
   root117. cf. ret, rotten.
   1. to undergo a process common to organic substances by which
      they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through
      certain chemical changes, giving off usually in some
      stages of the process more or less offensive odors; to
      become decomposed by a natural process; to putrefy; to
      decay.
      1913 webster

            fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot,
            to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot. --pope.
      1913 webster

   2. figuratively: to perish slowly; to decay; to die; to
      become corrupt.
      1913 webster

            four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons.
                                                  --macaulay.
      1913 webster

            rot, poor bachelor, in your club.     --thackeray.
      1913 webster

   syn: to putrefy; corrupt; decay; spoil.
        1913 webster
see also:
rotted rotting ret rotten 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

rot
     n 1: decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor syn: putrefaction
     2: biology decaying caused by bacterial or fungal action
        syn: decomposition, rotting, putrefaction
     3: unacceptable behavior especially ludicrously false
        statements syn: bunk, bunkum, buncombe, guff, hogwash
     v 1: break down; "the bodies decomposed in the heat" syn: decompose,
           molder, moulder
     2: waste away; "political prisoners are wasting away in many
        prisons all over the world" syn: waste
     also: rotting, rotted
see also:
putrefaction decomposition rotting bunk bunkum buncombe 
guff hogwash decompose molder moulder 
waste rotted 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

rotting
     n : biology decaying caused by bacterial or fungal action
         syn: decomposition, rot, putrefaction
see also:
decomposition rot putrefaction 

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

rotting
     see rot
see also:
rot 

[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

32 moby thesaurus words for "rotting":
   bad, cankered, carious, corrupt, decayed, decomposed, festering,
   foul, gangrened, gangrenous, gone bad, mortified, necrosed,
   necrotic, peccant, putrefacient, putrefactive, putrefied,
   putrescent, putrid, rotten, saprobic, saprogenic, saprogenous,
   saprophilous, saprophytic, septic, sphacelated, spoiled,
   suppurating, suppurative, ulcerated

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