Definitions of rot [ɒt]

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Definition of 'rot'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.i.) rot
to undergo decomposition; decay.

2.  rot
to deteriorate, disintegrate, or become weak due to decay (often fol. by away, off, etc.).

3.  rot
to languish, as in confinement.

4.  rot
to become morally corrupt or offensive.

5. (v.t.) rot
to cause to rot.

6.  rot
to cause to become morally corrupt.

7.  rot
to ret (flax, hemp, etc.).

8. (n.) rot
the process of rotting.

9.  rot
the state of being rotten; decay.

10.  rot
rotting or rotten matter.

11.  rot
moral or social decay or corruption.

12.  rot
any of various animal or plant diseases caused by a fungal or bacterial infection and characterized by decay.

13.  rot
nonsense.

14. (interj.) rot
(used to express disagreement or disgust.)

Etymology: (bef. 900; (v.) ME rot(t)en, OE rotian, c. OHG

Definition of 'rot'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) putrefaction, rot
a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor

2. (noun) decomposition, rot, rotting, putrefaction
(biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action

3. (verb) bunk, bunkum, buncombe, guff, rot, hogwash
unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)

4. (verb) decompose, rot, molder, moulder
break down
"The bodies decomposed in the heat"

5. (verb) waste, rot
become physically weaker
"Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"

Definition of 'rot'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) rot
to decay or cause to decay
The water had rotted the wood.; as the leaves rot on the ground

Definition of 'rot'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) rot
process of rotting; decay; putrefaction

2. (noun) rot
a disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi. See Bitter rot, Black rot, etc., below

3. (noun) rot
a fatal distemper which attacks sheep and sometimes other animals. It is due to the presence of a parasitic worm in the liver or gall bladder. See 1st Fluke, 2

4. (verb) rot
to undergo a process common to organic substances by which they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through certain chemical changes, giving off usually in some stages of the process more or less offensive odors; to become decomposed by a natural process; to putrefy; to decay

5. (verb) rot
figuratively: To perish slowly; to decay; to die; to become corrupt

6. (verb) rot
to make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes; as, to rot vegetable fiber

7. (verb) rot
to expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret

Translation of 'rot'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to make or become bad or decayed The fruit is rotting on the ground; Water rots wood.
Afrikaans: verrot	Arabic: يَتَعَفَّن	Bulgarian: гния
Brazilian: apodrecer	Czech: hnít; působit hnití	German: verfaulen(lassen)
Danish: rådne	Greek: σαπίζω	Spanish: pudrir, corromper, descom
Estonian: mädanema, mädandama	Farsi: پوسیدن؛ ضایع شدن	Finnish: mädäntyä
French: (faire) pourrir	Hebrew: לְהֵירָקֵב	Hindi: सड़ना
Croatian: gnjiliti, trunuti	Hungarian: ro(t)had; (meg)rothaszt	Indonesian: membusuk
Icelandic: rotna, fúna	Italian: marcire, far marcire	Japanese: 腐る
Korean: 썩다, 부패하다	Lithuanian: pūti, pūdyti	Latvian: pūt; pūdēt
Malay: mereput	Dutch: (doen) rotten	Norwegian: råtne, morkne
Polish: gnić, rozkładać	Persian: پوسیدن؛ ضایع شدن	Pashto: ضایع کیدل، خرابیدل
Portuguese: apodrecer	Romanian: a putrezi	Russian: гнить; гноить
Slovak: hniť; spôsobiť hnitie	Slovenian: gniti; povzročati gnitje	Serbian: trunuti
Swedish: [få att] ruttna	Thai: ทำให้เน่าเปื่อย	Turkish: çürü(t)mek
Taiwanese: 腐爛，腐朽	Ukrainian: гнити; псуватися	Urdu: گلنا سڑنا
Vietnamese: thối rữa	Chinese: 腐坏，腐朽
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