Definitions for ROT

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ROT rot

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IPA: /rɒt/

Rot is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 3 points.

You can make 14 anagrams from letters in ROT (ort).

Definitions for ROT

noun

1. the process of rotting.
2. the state of being rotten; decay; putrefaction:
3. rotting or rotten matter:
4. moral or social decay or corruption.
5. Pathology. any disease characterized by decay.
6. Plant Pathology. any of various forms of decay produced by fungi or bacteria. any disease so characterized.
7. Veterinary Pathology. a bacterial infection of sheep and cattle characterized by decay of the hoofs, caused by Fusobacterium necrophorum in cattle and Bacteroides nodosus in sheep.
8. nonsense.

interjection

1. (used to express disagreement, distaste, or disgust.)

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to rot:
2. to cause moral decay in; cause to become morally corrupt.
3. to ret (flax, hemp, etc.).

verb (used without object)

1. to undergo decomposition; decay.
2. to deteriorate, disintegrate, fall, or become weak due to decay (often followed by away, from, off, etc.).
3. to languish, as in confinement.
4. to become morally corrupt or offensive.

Origin of ROT

before 900; (v.) Middle English rot(t)en, Old English rotian, cognate with Frisian rotsje, Dutch rotten; (noun) Middle English, perhaps Old Norse rot (perhaps partly derivative of the v.); cf

Examples for ROT

So Little Snow White lay in the coffin for a long, long time but did not rot.

What rot not to know their places, when they must know them!

And the willingness to dump on British women in the name of Sharia law is a rot that runs up and down the length of society.

Why, the mill-stones wear away with rot more than with grinding corn.

He had too much insight, and too much exact information as well, to dismiss them as rot.

Gary has been broken for a while, and it looks like much of it has been left to rot.

I'm really writing all this rot to get myself into the "twitter-twitter" mood.

“Biofuel” can be made out of anything that will ferment or rot, including digestive system waste products.

Throw me on a dunghill, and let me rot there, to infect the air!'

As ever, he talked too big (it was an election year) about withdrawing from Iraq with honor and all that rot.