rot
/ɹɑt/ verb B2- 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.
- To decline in function or utility. · Your brain will rot if you spend so much time on the computer, Tony!
- To (cause to) deteriorate in any way, as in morals; to corrupt.
- To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes. · to rot vegetable fiber
- To spend a long period of time (in an unpleasant place or state). · to rot in prison· If I hadn't rotted in bed all day I would've come...
- To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
- To talk nonsense.
- Damn; blast.
He/she/it rots · Past rotted · Past participle rotted · -ing form rotting
Verb forms
- Base form
- rot
- He/she/it
- rots
- Past
- rotted
- Past participle
- rotted
- -ing form
- rotting
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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The rattle of our wheels died away as we drove through drifts of rotting vegetation—sad gifts, as it seemed to me, for Nature to throw before the carriage of the returning heir of the Baskervilles.
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