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rot English

Meaning rot meaning

What does rot mean?
Definitions in simple English

rot Verb

— If something rots it spoils. Rotting is how something turns into dirt (soil) because of bacteria and fungus. We threw out the fruit that rots. The police found the rotting body of someone who was killed.

rot Noun

— Rot is material is decaying (rotting) and has decayed (rotted) a lot already. The log was full of rot so it broke easily. — Rot is the act of decaying (rotting). We put our food in the freezer to avoid rot.

rot

— verb (= decompose) break down The bodies decomposed in the heat — noun (= putrefaction) a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor — noun (= decomposition) (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action — verb (= waste) become physically weaker Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world — noun (= bunk) unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)

Synonyms rot synonyms

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rot English » English

decay putrefy decompose spoil go bad decomposition putrefaction corrode nonsense moulder molder corrupt become rotten ruin rubbish rotting rottenness rotten fester corruption cause to rot waste away waste deterioration deteriorate decline bunk wither stink spoilt putrescence mould hogwash guff ferment disintegration degenerate decaying bunkum buncombe breakdown become putrid become carious become bad winsome wet rot turn sour trash transmutation transience

ROT English » English

rotary axis measurement rate of turn

Topics rot topics

What do people use rot to talk about?
States Quality Good

Decay
Universe, creation Plant

Parts of a plant
Universe, creation Plant

Growth of plants
Person Life Die

Corpse
Universe, creation Plant

Moss, fungus, algae
Person Life Die

Bury

Conjugation rot conjugation

How do you conjugate rot?

rot · verb

Examples rot examples

How do I use rot in a sentence?

Simple sentences

He can rot in hell.
Better to run than to rot.
When you stay too long in the same place, things and people go to pot on you, they rot and start stinking for your special benefit.
This apple is starting to rot.
Put the meat in the refrigerator, or it will rot.
You're talking rot.
This apple began to rot.
The barn is so old that the beams are beginning to rot.
Don't talk rot, Tom.
This apple has started to rot.

Movie subtitles

If they were going to just store them and let them rot, couldn't they have given them before these rotted?
Ah, yes, that one does seem fine, but even so. it was going to rot.
The truth will come out soon, Declan, and you - you will rot in hell.
What load of rot!
That's fine stuff, but it'll rot.
But it'll rot, too, in time.
So's that I can rot in this hole!
Hundreds of carloads of fresh vegetables rot on sidings.
But surely you don't believe that preposterous rot, old fellow, what?
The army was governed by dry rot and slow paralysis.
Left us here to rot. That's what they've done.
You'll wait until you rot!
It's all just rot!
He couldn't rot in Durnstein like any decent man.
Almighty Allah, may their children rot in their mothers' bellies, may our soldiers take their wealth and women.
If I'm lying, may my guts rot and may I burn in Hell.
Do you think I'll spend my whole life in this dry rot just so the rest of the world can ride around on balloon tires? - Sure you will.
And let a million pounds of ivory go to rot under the earth?
I'd rot before I'd serve him.
Well, stay here and rot.
H ha.. that's pure Tommy-rot. Well, there's another aspect.
Nobody would ever think of leaving. It's all just rot!
Johnny, this is rot.
I once won a box of cigars. He's talking rot.
I've called the men out. and we're leavin'the wheat to rot in the fields.
We can't let him rot away out there.
Oh, rot, Aunt Margaret.
Do you wanna drop down dead in your tracks and rot?
I've had enough of smelling death, of rot and death.
It's hard work and it's risky work. It's work we'll rot in chains for one day.
Rot their innards out sooner with the blue ruin you sell 'em?
Everything a boat should be until she develops dry rot.
I'll rot before I'll talk to her.
But think of all those poor refugees who must rot in this place if I didn't help them.
Otherwise, it will rot at police headquarters.
Rather than accept one nickel Of her tainted money. I'll rot here in jail for the rest of my life.
But your skin will rot and you will smell until death.

News and current affairs

The rot began during the 1980s, under Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.
This would mean using agricultural and other waste, which would otherwise rot and produce nearly equal amounts of CO2 and methane, an even more dangerous greenhouse gas.
Expansive and open-ended guarantees might have worked, but if they didn't, the economic rot from the periphery could have spread to the center.
Such a nightmare scenario isn't at all likely in Hong Kong, but a steady rot of Hong Kong's vitality is.
But if the goal is merely for the communists to retain their monopoly on power, in both Hong Kong and China, then the rot that has settled into Hong Kong's polity and its economy may begin to infect the mainland.
While Xi's efforts to cleanse the rot inside the Chinese party-state should be applauded, it is no less important to recognize their limits.
A new president, however, means a new beginning, the right time to sort out the rot.
Eventually, their exclusion will rot our democratic culture from within.
In Venezuela, importing spoiled food and letting it rot is more profitable than any investment anywhere else in the world (disregarding, of course, the bribes needed to make it happen).
Rot first set in during 1998 but stalled in 2000 because of the US presidential election.
At root, low morale is just a consequence of the indifference of medical scientists, busy in their labs, allowing the social and emotional foundations of their field to rot away beneath them.
To realize any of these scenarios, the world need do nothing but wait and watch the present status quo rot and sink into chaos.
The result - a decision to cheat on emissions tests - says less about Germany's culture of manufacturing than about rot at the car company, beginning at the very top.
To stop the country's fiscal rot, Japan must achieve a consensus on the type of social services that national and local governments should offer, for how long, and at what cost.
My answer is this: if we stay where we are, like the proverbial dog in the manger, the hay - Russia's economy - will rot.
Each of us carries this potential for rot.
But Musharraf is no Gorbachev, nor is he Kamal Ataturk, who pushed internal reform on their societies after recognizing the rot within.
By overplaying its hand in Afghanistan and lying to the world about the downing of KAL 007, the Soviet regime exposed and accelerated the rot that made its collapse inevitable.
The popular explanation for lack of action in Russia and Ukraine is that their governments view IDUs as criminals, rather than people with a disease, and adopt an informal let-them-rot policy.
A clear sign of the rot in Iran's economy can be found in economic relations between Iran and Turkey.
Economic rot sets in as the ranks of dependent citizens grow, productive citizens dwindle in number, and society eventually runs out of other people's money.
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