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Anonymous asked in Education & ReferenceWords & Wordplay · 5 days ago

What does "rotting in" mean here?

 ... law enforcement began sending flood victims to the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center so they could be evacuated from the flooded city. It took until Friday, four days after the storm made landfall, for the National Guard to arrive with food, water, and medicine for those forced out of their homes and into the convention center. On September 2, as journalists around the world shared images of corpses rotting in the sweltering building FEMA director Michael Brown told CNN that ...

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  • 5 days ago
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    rotting means decaying.  in means the interior of.  interior of what?  the (sweltering) building. The bodies were rotting.  The bodies were in the building, so the rotting was happening in the building.

  • 5 days ago

    the correct phrase is read as " ... corpses rotting ... inside the building ..."

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