(v. t.) To deprive feloniously of the tools used in one's employment (as by breaking or stealing them), for the purpose of annoying; as, to ratten a mechanic who works during a strike.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chris Ratten, the firm's head of restructuring, said: "We expect this year to be worse, as those who have managed to teeter on the edge for the past few years will feel the full effects of the reduction of discretionary spending, fierce competition and reducing cash reserves.
Rotten
Definition:
(a.) Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten meat.
(a.) Offensive to the smell; fetid; disgusting.
(a.) Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous; unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Far from being depressed, the audience turned into a heaving mass of furious geeks, who roared their anger and vowed that they would not rest until they had brought down the rotten system The "skeptic movement" (always spelt with "k" by the way, to emphasise their distinctiveness) had come to Singh's aid.
(2) Artists round the globe may plead free speech, but to treat the Pussy Riot gesture as a glorious stand for artistic liberty is like praising Johnny Rotten, who did similar things, as the Voltaire of our day.
(3) produced strong rotten, fishy, hydrogen sulphide off-odours.
(4) It would defer the moment of confronting the underlying problem, which is not a strong currency but a rotten state.
(5) Distinction was made between different types of odours (rotten, wood).
(6) It was "inconceivable" that one rotten apple was at the heart of it all.
(7) She is rotten through and through, as you feel Ayres might have put it herself.
(8) Some gifted and canny writers have made a mint by appealing to teenagers’ sense of anguish and victimhood, the notion that they are forever embattled and persecuted by a rotten world run by authoritarian bozos.
(9) Devine strongly denied a suggestion that parliament was "rotten to the core".
(10) The character George Bowling bites into a frankfurter he has bought in an milk bar decorated in chrome and mirrors: "The thing burst in my mouth like a rotten pear.
(11) The project reunites her with Jane Campion, director of An Angel At My Table, in which Fox hiked, rotten-toothed and bubble-haired, across the hills of New Zealand.
(12) The relative efficiency of the next generation of solar cells is trivial by comparison.” In other words, our problem has a lot less to do with the mechanics of solar power than the politics of human power – specifically whether there can be a shift in who wields it, a shift away from corporations and toward communities, which in turn depends on whether or not the great many people who are getting a rotten deal under our current system can build a determined and diverse enough social force to change the balance of power.
(13) Rotten" – is meant to satirise David Cameron, George Osborne and Boris Johnson's days at the Buller.
(14) Tellingly, all of these were occupied by the business of peeling back the veneer of Austro-Hungarian culture to expose the rottenness beneath, and this might have had something to do with the fact that, when they were in their teens, another Viennese, Sigmund Freud, was putting together the framework of the new technique of psychoanalysis.
(15) Finally, from 1978 here's the 0-0 draw in Mar del Plata on a rotten pitch with David Coleman.
(16) 40 min: Rotten shot from Henderson, a terrible waste when Downing had turned McNaughton thsi way then that before crossing.
(17) Isn't it worried as to how and why so many rotten apples creep into its barrel?
(18) The film, starring the Bridesmaids actor as a former business heavyweight struggling to rebuild her life after completing a jail sentence for insider trading, has a rating of just 17% on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes and was labelled an “unfunny, chaotic mess of ludicrous plotting and tone-deaf set-pieces” by Jordan Hoffman in the Guardian.
(19) If Labour is complicit with the idea that Westminster is rotten, it promotes the idea that real change is not available from national politics.
(20) There isn't much in the way of revelation to be found in Samantha Geimer's new memoir, The Girl; every rotten detail of Roman Polanski's conviction in a US court for "unlawful sex with a minor", flight and subsequent exile in France has been in the public eye for years.