Rotting vs Rusty - What's the difference?
rotting | rusty |
The process by which something rots.
* 1686 , Robert Plot, The Natural History of Staffordshire (page 214)
Material that has rotted.
* , Possum
Affected by rust.
Of the rust color, reddish or reddish-brown.
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*:Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, withon one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
Having red or reddish-brown hair.
Lacking recent experience, out of practice, especially with respect to a skill or activity.
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, title= Discolored and rancid; reasty.
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As a verb rotting
is .As a noun rotting
is the process by which something rots.As an adjective rusty is
affected by rust.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.
rusty
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Adjective
(er)Liverpool 0-1 Wolverhampton, passage=Before the match, Hodgson had expressed the hope that his players would be fresh rather than rusty after an 18-day break from league commitments because of two successive postponements.}}