rot
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: rots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rotting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rotted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rotted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The apple left in the cupboard all that time had started to rot.
Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, / To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
gloss: To decline in function or utility.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Your brain will rot if you spend so much time on the computer, Tony!
gloss: To (cause to) deteriorate in any way, as in morals; to corrupt.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
gloss: To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to rot vegetable fiber
gloss: To spend a long period of time (in an unpleasant place or state).
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: to rot in prison
to rot in Hell
If I hadn't rotted in bed all day I would've come...
Four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons.
Rot, poor bachelor, in your club.
gloss: To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To talk nonsense.
pos: verb
tags: dated
slang
examples: “Did they hang you well?” said Porson.
“Don’t rot,” said Mr Watkins; “I don’t like it.”
Adrian thought it worth while to try out his new slang. ‘I say, you fellows, here's a rum go. Old Biffo was jolly odd this morning. He gave me a lot of pi-jaw about slacking and then invited me to tea. No rotting! He did really.’
gloss: Damn; blast.
pos: verb
tags: imperative
slang
transitive
examples: "Oh rot yer!" exclaimed Fank, with a sudden flare of passion that at least carried with it the dignity of a genuine emotion; "I've had just abart enough of you and your blinkin' game, Toady Joolby. Here, I'd sooner smash the bloody thing, straight, than be such a ruddy mug as to swallow any of your blahsted promises […]"
gloss: The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Decaying matter.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: When a turkey vulture detects the scent of rot, it circles down, tracing the plume of chemicals to its source.
gloss: Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-compounds
uncountable
examples: His cattle must of rot and murrain die.
gloss: Verbal nonsense.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: You're talking rot! I don't believe a word.
Synonyms: putrefy
molder
Derived words: Alabama rot
Armillaria root rot
Barcoo rot
bed rot
bit rot
bitter rot
black rot
brain rot
brainrot
brain-rot
brain-rotting
brown rot
charcoal rot
code rot
cotton root rot
crotch rot
data rot
disc rot
disk rot
dry rot
dry-rot
fin rot
foot rot
gambler's rot
green rot
gut rot
heartrot
heart rot
hoofrot
Italian brain rot
Java black rot
jock rot
jungle rot
knob rot
laser rot
linkrot
liver rot
mahogany rot
mushroom root rot
noble rot
pelt rot
pizzle rot
potter's rot
red rot
ring rot
root rot
rot-13
rot away
rot-goose
rot gut
rotgut
rot in hell
rot me
rot off
rot pocket
rotproof
rot-proof
rot-scape
rotsome
rot-steep
rottable
rot through
sap rot
scrot rot
shoestring root rot
soft rot
software rot
star rot
Texas root rot
tommy-rot
URL rot
violet root rot
wet rot
wet-rot
white rot
wood-rot
woodrot
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