rot
/ɹɑt/ verbo B2En español: pudrirse, podrirse, pudrir, podrir
- 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 · Pasado rotted · Participio pasado rotted · Forma en -ing rotting
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
- rot
- He/she/it
- rots
- Pasado
- rotted
- Participio pasado
- rotted
- Forma en -ing
- rotting
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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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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