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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.
- 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.