Meaning

(intransitive) To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
2. (intransitive) To decline in function or utility.
3. (ambitransitive) To (cause to) deteriorate in any way, as in morals; to corrupt.
4. (transitive) To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.
5. (intransitive, figurative) To spend a long period of time (in an unpleasant place or state).
6. (transitive) To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
7. (dated, slang) To talk nonsense.
8. (transitive, slang, imperative) Damn; blast.

Example Sentences

The apple left in the cupboard all that time had started to rot.

Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, / To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.

Your brain will rot if you spend so much time on the computer, Tony!

to rot vegetable fiber

to rot in prison

to rot in Hell

If I hadn't rotted in bed all day I would've come...

Four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons.

Word Forms

• rots
• rotting
• rotted

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