The word 'rotted' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a verb that means to decay or decompose due to age or lack of use. You can use it when you are describing something that has decayed or decomposed over time, either from age, lack of use, or exposure to the elements. Example Sentence: The wood porch was so rotted that it had become unsafe to stand on.
Shackled to a bed at night and existing on scraps of food, his teeth rotted and he lost the power of speech.
Hospitals rotted: even many of the missions languished.
It also found that Merseyside had failed to attract a share of inward investment appropriate to its size despite all of the subsidies and "help" on offer from public bodies.In many cases, public money has been thrown at grand projects on the periphery of the city centre, while much of the centre itself has rotted.
Aside from their shorter stature, they had more skeletal wear and tear from the hard work, their teeth rotted more, they were short of protein and vitamins and they caught diseases from domesticated animals: measles from cattle, flu from ducks, plague from rats and worms from using their own excrement as fertiliser.They also got a bad attack of inequality for the first time.
He is enraged by the corruption and cronyism that has rotted Congress, India's other national party.
If dead trees are not harvested within 10 to 15 years of being killed, they will have rotted or burned to the point of uselessness.
But thanks to incompetence and corruption, vast shipments of food rotted before reaching the shops.
The public utility here even goes door to door to pick up coffee filters, rotted carrots and other compost.
He had been considered too liberal in his guidance of the country following the death of Stalin.Later, in defending the dismissal of Khrushchev, Mr Semichastny said that Soviet society would have rotted away under him.
After years of drift under Congress, some of the country's institutions have rotted.
He emphasised the importance of sound institutions and sensible policies in improving the lot of poorer nations, many of which rotted from the entrenched depredations of a self-serving governing class.
