Rot vs. Rut
Rotverb
(intransitive) To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
Rotverb
(intransitive) To decline in function or utility.
Rotverb
(ambitransitive) To (cause to) deteriorate in any way, as in morals; to corrupt.
Rotverb
(transitive) To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.
Rotverb
To spend a long period of time (in an unpleasant place).
Rotverb
(transitive) To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
Rotnoun
The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
Rotnoun
Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
Rotnoun
Verbal nonsense.
Rotverb
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.
Rotverb
Figuratively: To perish slowly; to decay; to die; to become corrupt.
Rotverb
To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes; as, to rot vegetable fiber.
Rotverb
To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
Rotnoun
Process of rotting; decay; putrefaction.
Rotnoun
A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi. See Bitter rot, Black rot, etc., below.
Rotnoun
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.
Rotnoun
decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
Rotnoun
(biology) decaying caused by bacterial or fungal action
Rotnoun
unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)
Rotverb
break down;
Rotverb
waste away;
Rotverb
(chiefly of animal or vegetable matter) decay or cause to decay by the action of bacteria and fungi; decompose
Rotverb
gradually deteriorate, especially through neglect
Rotverb
make fun of; tease
Rotnoun
the process of decaying
Rotnoun
rotten or decayed matter.
Rotnoun
any of a number of fungal or bacterial diseases that cause tissue deterioration, especially in plants.
Rotnoun
liver rot in sheep.
Rotnoun
a process of deterioration; a decline in standards
Rotnoun
corruption on the part of officials.
Rotnoun
nonsense; rubbish
Rutnoun
(zoology) Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals.
Rutnoun
The noise made by deer during sexual excitement.
Rutnoun
Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.
Rutnoun
A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road.
Rutnoun
(figurative) A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling.
Rutnoun
(figurative) A dull routine.
Rutverb
(intransitive) To be in the annual rut or mating season.
Rutverb
(intransitive) To have sexual intercourse.
Rutverb
To have sexual intercourse with.
Rutverb
(transitive) To make a furrow.
Rutnoun
Sexual desire or œstrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the œstrus exists.
Rutnoun
Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. See Rote.
Rutnoun
A track worn by a wheel or by habitual passage of anything; a groove in which anything runs. Also used figuratively.
Rutverb
To have a strong sexual impulse at the reproductive period; - said of deer, cattle, etc.
Rutverb
To cover in copulation.
Rutverb
To make a rut or ruts in; - chiefly used as a past participle or a participial adj.; as, a rutted road.
Rutnoun
a groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels)
Rutnoun
a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape;
Rutnoun
applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity
Rutverb
be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals
Rutverb
hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove;
