EGAVE

rot

About 2.89 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
    The apple left in the cupboard all that time had started to rot.
  2. verb To decline in function or utility.
    Your brain will rot if you spend so much time on the computer, Tony!
  3. verb To (cause to) deteriorate in any way, as in morals; to corrupt.
  4. verb To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.
    to rot vegetable fiber
  5. verb To spend a long period of time (in an unpleasant place or state).
    to rot in prison
  6. verb To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
  7. verb To talk nonsense.
  8. verb Damn; blast.

Similar words

putrefaction moulder waste horseshit dogshit shit bullshit decompose hogwash bunkum

Often followed by

in and of is on fungi away or the

Word family

rots rotted rotting

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