·adj Offensive to the smell; fetid; disgusting.
II. Rotten ·adj Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten meat.
III. Rotten ·adj Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous; unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone.
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