Rot
noun
The process of something decaying or breaking down.
The wood was in a state of rot.
Often appears as...
- state of rot
- rot sets in
verb
When something organic, like food or wood, breaks down or decomposes.
If you leave the apples out for too long, they will start to rot.
Often appears as...
- rot away
- rot to the core
verb
To make someone very bad, morally or socially.
Too much power can rot a person's character.
Often appears as...
- rot from within
- rot the soul
Usage tips
Disapproving
interjection
A rude way to say that you don't care or you don't agree.
Rot! I don't believe a word you say.
Usage tips
Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
The process of something decaying or breaking down.
The wood was in a state of rot.
Often appears as...
- state of rot
- rot sets in
verb
When something organic, like food or wood, breaks down or decomposes.
If you leave the apples out for too long, they will start to rot.
Often appears as...
- rot away
- rot to the core
verb
To make someone very bad, morally or socially.
Too much power can rot a person's character.
Often appears as...
- rot from within
- rot the soul
Usage tips
Disapproving
interjection
A rude way to say that you don't care or you don't agree.
Rot! I don't believe a word you say.
Usage tips
Disapproving
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Time Indicator
Used to indicate the gradual decay over time, especially with neglect.
Without maintenance, the building will inevitably rot.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Damage
Highlights the visible damage or degeneration of materials.
The rot in the wall worsened after the storm.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
Implies something undesirable and usually irreparable.
There's a sense of rot in the abandoned town.
Pro Tip 1/3Time Indicator
Used to indicate the gradual decay over time, especially with neglect.
Without maintenance, the building will inevitably rot.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Damage
Highlights the visible damage or degeneration of materials.
The rot in the wall worsened after the storm.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
Implies something undesirable and usually irreparable.
There's a sense of rot in the abandoned town.
Pro Tip 1/3Time Indicator
Used to indicate the gradual decay over time, especially with neglect.
Without maintenance, the building will inevitably rot.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Damage
Highlights the visible damage or degeneration of materials.
The rot in the wall worsened after the storm.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
Implies something undesirable and usually irreparable.
There's a sense of rot in the abandoned town.
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Video examples
Vultures: The...
But the sight of their fellow vultures guides them to the feeding. Their featherless heads help them regulate the sudden rise in temperature as they descend— and keep them clean as they tear into the decaying gazelle. The carcass is stripped clean in hours, well before the rotting meat infects the water supply.
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Should we eat bugs? -...
and can be reared on organic waste, like vegetable peelings, that might otherwise just end up rotting in landfills. Feeling hungry yet? Faced with a plate of fried crickets, most people today would still recoil, imagining all those legs and feelers getting stuck between their teeth. But think of a lobster.
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This New Zealand Couple...
by controlling the warmth in his kumara filled sheds it stayed fresh all year round and the industry cheered but all was not well in the northern fields on the dark of the flats the fields fell to yield the kumara growers were down on their knees black rot had set in a killer disease you do it
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Homeopathy, quackery and...
Those are very important, critically important to us. And we must do something about those problems. But at the same time, as Arthur C. Clarke said, The rotting of the human mind, the business of believing in the paranormal and the occult and the supernatural --
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The dark side of...
not thousands of tons of clothing and it's rotting they're gonna burn it and then put it out to sea and there's certainly nothing green about that at all now what about the economy one of the first things you want to have happen when a whole area gets
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What would happen if...
Leaks, mold, bug and rodent infestations - all the usual enemies of the homeowner- now go uncontested. Within 75 years, most houses' supporting beams have rotted and sagged, and the resulting collapsed heap is now home to local rodents and lizards.
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Sewer Diving PIPE National...
they're the bowels of one of the world's largest and most polluted cities where disease runs rampant and the stench is sickening human excrement toxic waste rotting cadavers all flowing right
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Sewer Diver Loves His...
they're the bowels of one of the world's largest and most polluted cities where disease runs rampant and the stench is sickening human excrement toxic waste rotting cadavers all flowing right
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The tale of the boy who...
Reluctantly, the youth knocked on the rotting door. The devil’s grandmother answered his call. She was known to help some visiting souls, and harm others.
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Corpse Flower Stinks of...
but it's very attractive to carrion flies they lay their eggs on rotting flesh the scent lures the fly deep into the
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Vultures: The...
But the sight of their fellow vultures guides them to the feeding. Their featherless heads help them regulate the sudden rise in temperature as they descend— and keep them clean as they tear into the decaying gazelle. The carcass is stripped clean in hours, well before the rotting meat infects the water supply.
Video examples
Should we eat bugs? -...
and can be reared on organic waste, like vegetable peelings, that might otherwise just end up rotting in landfills. Feeling hungry yet? Faced with a plate of fried crickets, most people today would still recoil, imagining all those legs and feelers getting stuck between their teeth. But think of a lobster.
Video examples
This New Zealand Couple...
by controlling the warmth in his kumara filled sheds it stayed fresh all year round and the industry cheered but all was not well in the northern fields on the dark of the flats the fields fell to yield the kumara growers were down on their knees black rot had set in a killer disease you do it
Video examples
Homeopathy, quackery and...
Those are very important, critically important to us. And we must do something about those problems. But at the same time, as Arthur C. Clarke said, The rotting of the human mind, the business of believing in the paranormal and the occult and the supernatural --
Video examples
The dark side of...
not thousands of tons of clothing and it's rotting they're gonna burn it and then put it out to sea and there's certainly nothing green about that at all now what about the economy one of the first things you want to have happen when a whole area gets
Video examples
What would happen if...
Leaks, mold, bug and rodent infestations - all the usual enemies of the homeowner- now go uncontested. Within 75 years, most houses' supporting beams have rotted and sagged, and the resulting collapsed heap is now home to local rodents and lizards.
Video examples
Sewer Diving PIPE National...
they're the bowels of one of the world's largest and most polluted cities where disease runs rampant and the stench is sickening human excrement toxic waste rotting cadavers all flowing right
Video examples
Sewer Diver Loves His...
they're the bowels of one of the world's largest and most polluted cities where disease runs rampant and the stench is sickening human excrement toxic waste rotting cadavers all flowing right
Video examples
The tale of the boy who...
Reluctantly, the youth knocked on the rotting door. The devil’s grandmother answered his call. She was known to help some visiting souls, and harm others.
Video examples
Corpse Flower Stinks of...
but it's very attractive to carrion flies they lay their eggs on rotting flesh the scent lures the fly deep into the
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Quote examples
Kirk Cameron
American Actor
As I look around, I get this sinking feeling that we're off track, that there's something sick in the soul of our country. I examine the fruit that's hanging on the tree of America, and I can see that it's rotting. And that concerns me deeply.
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Killer Mike
American Musician
You can't argue that hip-hop rots away the moral character of kids or rots their brain and still see middle-class white kids going to college who are listening to hip-hop. Going on to become healthy adults listening to hip-hop.
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Gaspar Noe
Argentinian Director
I think life after death is in the mind of the people around you. It's what's left in this world in the memory of others, but when the flesh starts rotting, the spirit disappears.
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Edward Norton
American Actor
Well, I don't feel that I've played so many bad guys, and I'm rot really drawn to villains per se. I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.
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Philip Gibbs
British Journalist
We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead.
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Gutzon Borglum
American Sculptor
I am ready to rot in jail for the rest of my life rather than admit that my small-minded enemies are right.
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Edvard Munch
Norwegian Artist
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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Ogden Nash
American Poet
Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
Without electricity, the air would rot.
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Georgia May Jagger
English Model
Reality TV rots people's brains.
Quote examples
Kirk Cameron
American Actor
As I look around, I get this sinking feeling that we're off track, that there's something sick in the soul of our country. I examine the fruit that's hanging on the tree of America, and I can see that it's rotting. And that concerns me deeply.
Quote examples
Killer Mike
American Musician
You can't argue that hip-hop rots away the moral character of kids or rots their brain and still see middle-class white kids going to college who are listening to hip-hop. Going on to become healthy adults listening to hip-hop.
Quote examples
Gaspar Noe
Argentinian Director
I think life after death is in the mind of the people around you. It's what's left in this world in the memory of others, but when the flesh starts rotting, the spirit disappears.
Quote examples
Edward Norton
American Actor
Well, I don't feel that I've played so many bad guys, and I'm rot really drawn to villains per se. I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.
Quote examples
Philip Gibbs
British Journalist
We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead.
Quote examples
Gutzon Borglum
American Sculptor
I am ready to rot in jail for the rest of my life rather than admit that my small-minded enemies are right.
Quote examples
Edvard Munch
Norwegian Artist
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
Quote examples
Ogden Nash
American Poet
Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
Quote examples
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
Without electricity, the air would rot.
Quote examples
Georgia May Jagger
English Model
Reality TV rots people's brains.
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