Rowt vs. Rot

To make a loud noise.

A loud noise.

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

(intransitive) To decline in function or utility.

(ambitransitive) To (cause to) deteriorate in any way, as in morals; to corrupt.

(transitive) To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.

Example: ‘to rot vegetable fiber’;

To spend a long period of time (in an unpleasant place).

Example: ‘to rot in prison’; ‘to rot in Hell’;

(transitive) To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.

The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.

Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.

Verbal nonsense.

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.

Example: ‘Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot,To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.’;

Figuratively: To perish slowly; to decay; to die; to become corrupt.

Example: ‘Four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons.’; ‘Rot, poor bachelor, in your club.’;

To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes; as, to rot vegetable fiber.

To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.

Process of rotting; decay; putrefaction.

A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi. See Bitter rot, Black rot, etc., below.

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.

Example: ‘His cattle must of rot and murrain die.’;

decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor

(biology) decaying caused by bacterial or fungal action

unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)

break down;

Example: ‘The bodies decomposed in the heat’;

waste away;

Example: ‘Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world’;

(chiefly of animal or vegetable matter) decay or cause to decay by the action of bacteria and fungi; decompose

Example: ‘the chalets were neglected and their woodwork was rotting away’; ‘caries sets in at a weak point and spreads to rot the whole tooth’;

gradually deteriorate, especially through neglect

Example: ‘the education system has been allowed to rot’;

make fun of; tease

Example: ‘has anybody been rotting you?’;

the process of decaying

Example: ‘the leaves were turning black with rot’;

rotten or decayed matter.

any of a number of fungal or bacterial diseases that cause tissue deterioration, especially in plants.

liver rot in sheep.

a process of deterioration; a decline in standards

Example: ‘there is enough talent in the team to stop the rot’; ‘it was when they moved back to the family home that the rot set in’;

corruption on the part of officials.

nonsense; rubbish

Example: ‘don't talk rot’; ‘‘Rot!’ she said with vehemence’;