Alive vs Rotting - What's the difference?

As an adjective alive

is having life, in opposition to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive.

the process by which something rots.

(en adjective)

Having life, in opposition to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive.

In a state of action; in force or operation; unextinguished; unexpired; existent

to keep the fire alive'; to keep the affections ' alive .

Exhibiting the activity and motion of many living beings; swarming; thronged.

The Boyne, for a quarter of a mile, was alive with muskets and green boughs. -- .

Sprightly; lively; brisk.

Having susceptibility; easily impressed; having lively feelings, as opposed to apathy; sensitive.

Tremblingly alive to nature's laws. -- .

As intensifier, of all living.

Northumberland was the proudest man alive . --.

* As intensifier, used colloquially "man alive!", "sakes alive!". * Alive always follows the noun which it qualifies.

* dead

* alive and kicking * aliveness * Christ alive * dead or alive * eat someone alive * keep hope alive * man alive * snakes alive

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(en noun)

The process by which something rots.

* 1686 , Robert Plot, The Natural History of Staffordshire (page 214)

the mould on the boles of the other [trees], that lyes commonly there, and is made of the annual rottings of their own leaves.

Material that has rotted.

* , Possum

From the compost rinds and rottings , from the garbage peels, from the shadows' darkness, darkness, this guttered meal and all its redolence.