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Definition of 'rot'English
Verb
( rott)
To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
* Alexander Pope
- Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, / To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot .
To decline in function or utility.
To deteriorate in any way.
- I hope they all rot in prison for what they've done.
* Macaulay
- Four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons.
* Thackeray
- Rot , poor bachelor, in your club.
To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.
- to rot vegetable fiber
To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
Derived terms
* potter's rot
Noun
( en-noun)
The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
* Milton
- His cattle must of rot and murrain die.
Verbal nonsense.
Synonyms
* (nonsense) See also
Similar to 'rot'rat, root, ret, rut, riot, rout, reit, ryot, rt, rit, reet, rowt
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