Rotting vs Decompose - What's the difference?
rotting | decompose |
The process by which something rots.
* 1686 , Robert Plot, The Natural History of Staffordshire (page 214)
Material that has rotted.
* , Possum
to separate or break down something into its components; to disintegrate or fragment
to rot, decay or putrefy
As verbs the difference between rotting and decompose
is that rotting is present participle of lang=en while decompose is to separate or break down something into its components; to disintegrate or fragment.As a noun rotting
is the process by which something rots.rotting
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- the mould on the boles of the other [trees], that lyes commonly there, and is made of the annual rottings of their own leaves.
- From the compost rinds and rottings , from the garbage peels, from the shadows' darkness, darkness, this guttered meal and all its redolence.