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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: rottenness (0.01260 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to rottenness.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: rottenness
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: rottenness
rottenness
n 1: in a state of progressive putrefaction [syn:
putrescence,
putridness,
corruption]
2: the quality of rotting and becoming putrid [syn:
putrescence]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Rottenness
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.
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Rot"ten*ly, adv. --
Rot"ten*ness,
n.
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