Definition of Rot

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Definition of Rot

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.

Figuratively: To perish slowly; to decay; to die; to become corrupt.

To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes; as, to rot vegetable fiber.

To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.

Process of rotting; decay; putrefaction.

A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi. See Bitter rot, Black rot, etc., below.

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.

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Rot Quotations

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
Josh Billings

As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.
Ray Kroc

When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.
Ray Kroc

Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway.
Frank Howard Clark

However, if we examine the Canadian scene closely enough, we can see signs of this physical and spiritual rot settling into a number of our Canadian urban centres with a troubling spill-over into many of our more rural areas.
Alex Campbell

The age I'm at now, you go from being a young girl to suddenly you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot.
Liv Tyler

He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it around with him, a scabrous spot of rot, of contagion, for which there was no cure.
Harry Crews

I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.
Florence King

It is the same to me, whether I rot in the air or in the ground. The earth is the Lord's.
Andrew Melville

Rot Translations

rot in Dutch is vergaan, verrotten, rotten, bederven
rot in French is pourrir
rot in German is faulst, verfaulen
rot in Italian is marcire
rot in Latin is putesco

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