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From 中期英語 rotynge (“rotting”), from 古期英語 rotung; equivalent to rot +‎ -ing. Conflated with 中期英語 rotende, present participle of roten (“to rot”), from 古期英語 rotiende, present participle of rotian (“to rot”).

rotting

rotting (plural rottings)

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.
- c. 2009, Janice N. Harrington, Possum:
  
  From the compost rinds and rottings, from the garbage peels, from the shadows' darkness, darkness, this guttered meal and all its redolence.

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