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is rotting

  • present progressive
    of rot (3rd person singular).
    rot
    verb (used without object)
    to undergo decomposition; decay.

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Now he says he feels as though he is "rotting away for no reason" in a hospital room.

From BBC ● May 19, 2026

Before our kids even learn the alphabet, we hand them tablets, and we know from neurological imagery that it is rotting their brains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

In the Afghan border town of Spin Boldak, a driver had told AFP on Monday that "fruit is rotting" in trucks.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2025

“Grief is rotting your teeth,” the dentist tells him.

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2025

"Otis Amber says that old man Westing's stinking corpse is rotting on an Oriental rug."

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin