ROT
\ɹˈɒt], \ɹˈɒt], \ɹ_ˈɒ_t]\
Definitions of ROT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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break down; "The bodies decomposed in the heat"
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unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)
By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Figuratively: To perish slowly; to decay; to die; to become corrupt.
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To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes; as, to rot vegetable fiber.
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To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
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Process of rotting; decay; putrefaction.
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A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi. See Bitter rot, Black rot, etc., below.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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Figuratively: To perish slowly; to decay; to die; to become corrupt.
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To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes; as, to rot vegetable fiber.
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To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
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Process of rotting; decay; putrefaction.
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A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi. See Bitter rot, Black rot, etc., below.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. To decay. 2. Decay, a process of decomposition. 3. A disease of sheep caused by the liver fluke, Distoma hepaticum.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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To putrefy: to become decomposed.
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To cause to rot: to bring to corruption:-pr.p. rotting; pa.t. and pa.p. rotted.
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Decay: putrefaction: a disease of the potato: a decay (called DRY-ROT) which attacks timber: a fatal distemper in sheep.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To corrupt; decay; putrefy; spoil.
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That which is rotten, or the process of rotting; decay; putrefaction.
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A disease of sheep; also, a disease of plants, as potatoes.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A fatal distemper incident to sheep; a disease of the potato; putrefaction. Dry rot, in timber, the decay of the wood without the access of water.
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To make putrid; to bring to corruption.
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To putrefy; to become decomposed; to go to corruption.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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To putrefy or decay; to be decomposed; to make putrid; to bring to corruption.
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Putrid decay; a fatal distemper peculiar to sheep-supposed to be owing to wet seasons and moist pastures.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Decay ; decomposition ; disease caused by Fungi or Bacteria ; a parasitic disease causing emaciation.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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