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rotten.

to rot, to go bad, to decay

6 characters2 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

verb/ˈrɔ.tə(n)/
  1. to rot, to go bad, to decay

    intransitive
    Het fruit begon te rotten omdat het te lang buiten de koelkast werd gelaten.
    Het hout van de schuur is aan het rotten.
Where this word comes from

From Middle Dutch rotten, reformed from earlier roten, from Old Dutch *roton, from Proto-West Germanic *rotēn, from Proto-Germanic *rutāną. By surface analysis, rot + -en.

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