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UK
/ɹˈɒt/
]
[ US /ˈɹɑt/ ]
[ US /ˈɹɑt/ ]
NOUN
- a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
- unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)
- (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
VERB
-
break down
The bodies decomposed in the heat -
become physically weaker
Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world
How To Use rot In A Sentence
- A little pyrotechnics display tacked on just serves to emphasise its lack of cutting edge. Times, Sunday Times
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- The protests were going on about 1 kilometers away in the main street and some of the protesting crowd were running from tear gass used among them, towards Salehi St. The film is shot by my friend who was standing beside me. Iran Election Live-Blogging (Saturday June 20 Part II)
- Before we did anything we wrote and rewrote the script until we felt what we had got written down was a really good story.
- Statutory rape laws were first enacted to protect minors from older predators.
- Rose of Sharon braced her body against the movements of the car in an effort to protect her fetus.
- Warner wrote from Egypt expressing sympathy for their unfurnished state of affairs, but added, "I would rather fit out three houses and fill them with furniture than to fit out one 'dahabiyeh'. Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete
- You see that you're undershooting and so, leaving the throttle as is, you attempt to flatten your descent path by lifting the nose a bit - and you enter the region of reverse command.
- We had a gam one day, on this voyage, with a Yankee whale-ship, and a first-rate gam it was, for, as the Yankee had gammed three days before with another English ship, we got a lot of news second-hand; and, as we had not seen a new face for many months, we felt towards those Yankees like brothers, and swallowed all they had to tell us like men starving for news. Fighting the Whales
- Turn out the lot and the wellrotted stuff at the base can be put on unplanted soil. The Sun