rot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rŏt
ipa: /ɹɒt/
ipa: /ɹɑt/
ipa: /ɹɔt/
homophone: wrought (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: rots
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English roten, rotten, from Old English rotian (“to rot, become corrupted, ulcerate, putrefy”), from Proto-West Germanic *rotēn, from Proto-Germanic *rutāną (“to rot”).
Senses: glosses: The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
examples: text: When a turkey vulture detects the scent of rot, it circles down, tracing the plume of chemicals to its source.
ref: 2016, Nathanael Johnson, Unseen City, →ISBN, page 115:
glosses: Decaying matter.
examples: text: His cattle must of rot and murrain die.
ref: 1658–1663, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
glosses: Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
examples: text: You're talking rot! I don't believe a word.
glosses: Verbal nonsense.
Derived terms: sense: from noun or verb
word: Alabama rot
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word: Armillaria root rot
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word: Barcoo rot
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word: bed rot
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word: bit rot
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word: bitter rot
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word: black rot
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word: brain rot
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word: brain-rot
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word: brown rot
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word: charcoal rot
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word: cotton root rot
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word: crotch rot
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word: data rot
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word: disc rot
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word: disk rot
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word: dry-rot
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word: dry rot
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word: fin rot
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word: foot rot
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word: gambler's rot
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word: green rot
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word: gut rot
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word: heart rot
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word: Italian brain rot
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word: Java black rot
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word: jungle rot
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word: knob rot
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word: laser rot
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word: linkrot
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word: liver rot
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word: mahogany rot
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word: mushroom root rot
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word: noble rot
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word: pelt rot
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word: pizzle rot
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word: potter's rot
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word: red rot
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word: ring rot
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word: root rot
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word: rot-13
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word: rot away
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word: rot-goose
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word: rot gut
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word: rot in hell
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word: rot me
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word: rot off
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word: rot pocket
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word: rot-proof
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word: rot-scape
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word: rot-steep
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word: rot through
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word: sap rot
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word: shoestring root rot
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word: soft rot
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word: software rot
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word: star rot
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word: Texas root rot
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word: tommy-rot
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word: URL rot
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word: violet root rot
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word: wet-rot
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word: wet rot
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word: white rot
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word: wood-rot