Rot

Definition: Rot

Rot

Noun

1. Decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor.

2. (biology) decaying caused by bacterial or fungal action.

3. A ludicrously false statement.

Verb

1. Break down; "The bodies decomposed in the heat".

2. Waste away; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "rot" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Note: Rot \Rot\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Rotted; Rotting.]. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Medicine

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

ROT

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Synonyms: Rot

Bane

Rust, worm, helminth, moth, moth and rust, fungus, mildew; dry rot; canker, cankerworm; cancer; torpedo; viper; (evil doer); demon.

Deterioration

Run to seed, go to seed, run to waste swale, sweal; lapse, be the worse for; sphacelate: break, break down; spring a leak, crack, start; shrivel; (contract); fade, go off, wither, molder, rot, rankle, decay, go bad; go to decay, fall into decay; " fall into the sear and yellow leaf", rust, crumble, shake; totter, totter to its fall; perish; die.

Decay, dilapidation, ravages of time, wear and tear; corrosion, erosion; moldiness, rottenness; moth and rust, dry rot, blight, marasmus, atrophy, collapse; disorganization; delabrement; (destruction).; aphid, Aphis, plant louse, puceron; vinefretter, vinegrub.

Blight, rot; corrode, erode; wear away, wear out; gnaw, gnaw at the root of; sap, mine, undermine, shake, sap the foundations of, break up; disorganize, dismantle, dismast; destroy.

Disease

Sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil; pimple, wen; (swelling); carbuncle, gathering, imposthume, peccant humor, issue; rot, canker, cold sore, fever sore; cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease, malignancy, tumor; caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene, sphacelus, sphacelation, leprosy; eruption, rash, breaking out.

Uncleanness

Verb: be unclean, become unclean; Adjective:; rot, putrefy, ferment, fester, rankle, reek; stink; mold, molder; go bad; Adjective:

Defilement, contamination; Verb: defoedation; soilure, soiliness; abomination; leaven; taint, tainture; fetor. decay; putrescence, putrefaction; corruption; mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo.

Crosswords: Rot

Afrikaan (rat), Dutch (addled, bad, gang, rat, rotten, squad, ugly), French (belch, burp), German (ablush, blushing, commie, pink, red, rouge, ruddy, to flush), Norwegian (root), Scottish (a belch), Swedish (base, loaf, radical, root).

Fester, fester, fester, rot, rot, rot… (French Kiss; writing credit: Adam Brooks)

Simpson? Look, we've already been down there tonight for a sisterectomy, a case of severe butt rot, and a Leprechaun fight (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

They prefer to leave you to rot and die. They call it being humane (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco)

All we have to do is show that Stan cheated on me - which the filthy pig did - no hard feelings - may he rot in hell - I love him to pieces - the fat turd (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein)

Because you are going to rot in their for a long time (Escape from Alcatraz; writing credit: J. Campbell Bruce; Richard Tuggle)

The words rot and fall away (Stay Together For The Kids; performing artist: Blink-182)

And rot inside a corpse's shell (Thriller; performing artist: Michael Jackson)

Bagnolo - Dorf zwischen schwarz und rot (1965)

Rot ist die Liebe (1957)

Dry Rot (1956)

Rot in Zanzibar (1954)

Das Herz ist rot (2003)

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Books

• Dry Rot and Daffodils: Life in a National Trust House (Ulverscroft Large Print Series) [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

• Rot (reference)

• Studies on Rice Collar Rot in Manipur (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• ROT (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Slowly We Rot [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Root-rotting fungi can weaken, stunt, or kill sugar beet plants. Here, geneticist Leonard Panella evaluates sugar beet plants for resistance to the fungal disease Rhizoctonia root rot. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Don't let 'em rot. Credit: Library of Congress.

Old boats beached to rot away, New York City. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cattle being tested with blue vitriol solution for hoof rot, Cruzen Ranch, Valley County, Idaho. Credit: Library of Congress.

Scaler who measures and determines extent of rot in logs, Tillamook, Oregon. Credit: Library of Congress.

May the 70's rot in peace! : in the 80's the empire's gonna shake, rattle, 'n' roll! : New Years Eve, 1980!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Nicht schwarz und rot allein lassen, FPO wahlen Liste 3. Credit: Library of Congress.

Rot Front. Credit: Library of Congress.

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And the smell of rot fills the country

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Health

People blamed the unhealthiness in these areas on rot and decay that wafted out on the foul air, or, as the Italians were to say, “mal’ aria” — “bad air.” In 1880, scientists discovered the real cause of malaria, the one-celled Plasmodium parasite, and 18 years later, they attributed the transmission of malaria to the Anopheles mosquito. (references)

Business

If nothing is done to stem the losses from fires the cost to the economy could be over USD 54 million in 2000! However, half of all fire safety equipment, installed at an annual cost of USD 135 million, is effectively left to rot away. In 1998, the Dubai Civil Defence Department carried out a survey of fire safety systems in commercial buildings, including hotels and shopping malls and found that over 60 per cent of the fire safety systems examined were not working. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

That makes to rot

Expressions using "rot": Armillaria root rot ♦ bit rot ♦ bitter rot ♦ black root rot fungus ♦ black rot ♦ bottom rot ♦ bottom rot fungus ♦ brown root rot fungus ♦ brown rot ♦ brown rot gummosis ♦ brown rot of fruit trees ♦ cause to rot ♦ creeping rot ♦ don't talk rot ♦ Dry rot ♦ dry rot of grapes ♦ Foot Rot ♦ grape white rot ♦ Grinder's asthma phthisis or rot ♦ Grinder's rot ♦ hard rot ♦ heart rot ♦ jungle rot ♦ let rot ♦ link rot ♦ liver rot ♦ loose rot ♦ lung rot ♦ noble rot ♦ pelt rot ♦ Phytophthora root rot ♦ pipe rot ♦ pocket rot ♦ potato rot ♦ potter's rot ♦ Pythium root rot ♦ red rot ♦ ring rot ♦ ring rot bacteria ♦ ring rot fungus ♦ ripe rot of grapes ♦ root rot ♦ rot away ♦ rot fungus ♦ rot in jail ♦ rot through ♦ rust red stringy rot ♦ sap rot ♦ sclerotium rot ♦ sheep rot ♦ shoestring root rot ♦ silkworm rot ♦ soft rot ♦ software rot ♦ spongy rot ♦ stop the rot ♦ stringy rot ♦ tommy rot ♦ wet rot ♦ white rot ♦ yellow brown top rot. Additional references.

Beginning with "rot": rot-preventing, rot-proof, rot-proofing agent, rot-resistant, rot-resisting, Rot-weiss.

Ending with "rot": fin-rot, foot-rot.

Afrikaans

bederwe (go bad, putrefy, spoil), bederf (bribe, corruption, damage, decay, depravation, go bad, injure, putrefy, spoil, taint). (various references)

Albanian

zhezhit (decay, putrefy), prishje (abolition, annulment, blasting, breach, breaking, breakup, chasm, collapse, corruption, damage, debasement, decay, decomposition, defacement, defeat, defilement, depravation, depravity, deterioration, discord, dissolution, failure, obliteration, quarrel, rancidity, rancidness, split up, spoilage, stymie, taint, vitiation, warp, wrecking), prishem (be destroyed, break off, decay, decompose, deteriorate, fail, fall, fall out, fall to pieces, go awry, go phut, go wrong, pack up, perish, putrefy, quarrel, run to seed, separate, take apart, touch, turn sour), prish (alloy, annul, baffle, blast, blow, botch, break, cancel, collapse, consume, corrode, corrupt, damn, darken, debase, debauch, deface, deflower, denounce, deprave, derogate, destroy, deteriorate, disarrange, disestablish, dissipate, dissolve, fester, fritter, frustrate, go, gum up, infringe, injure, mammock, mess, misguide, misspend, nip, obliterate, pervert, pollute, pull down, quash, queer, ruin, shatter, sophisticate, spend, split, spoil, stymie, take away, thwack, trouble, undo, unmake, unsettle, upset, violate, vitiate, warp, wear, wreck, zap), mossukses (bad luck, failure, ill luck, no go, reverse), kalbje (caries, decay, putrefaction, taint), kalbem (become rotten, decay, decompose, go bad, perish, putrefy, spoil), kalb, i prishur (addle, addled, annulled, broken, corrupt, decayed, depraved, disconcerted, flyblown, godforsaken, haywire, high, perverted, putrid, rancid, rotten, sour, spoilt, tainted, turned, unsound), gjepura (apple sauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blether, boloney, bosh, bunco, buncombe, bunk, bunko, claptrap, crap, drivel, drool, eyewash, fiddledeedee, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flam, flannel, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, galimatias, gammon, hog-wash, hokum, humbug, jazz, jiggery pokery, moonshine, nonsense, palaver, piffle, poppycock, punk, rubbish, stuff and nonsense, taradiddle, tosh, trash, twaddle, vacuity, waffle, wish-wash), bëj shaka (badinage, gag, jape, jest, joke, kid, make a game of, make smb. laugh, quiz, rally, trifle). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فساد (blight, corruption, decay, decomposition, degeneration, depravation, depravity, deterioration, disintegration, dry rot, immorality, invalidity, perversion, perversity, putrefaction, putridity, rottenness), ‏فسد (be corrupted, be decayed, be decomposed, be depraved, be evil, be immoral, be marred, be pervert, be putrid, be rotten, be spoiled, be vicious, become corrupted, become decayed, become decomposed, become depraved, become evil, become immoral, become marred, become pervert, become perverted, become putrid, become rotten, become spoiled, become vicious, contaminate, corrupt, decay, decompose, degenerate, deprave, deteriorate, disintegrate, foul, go bad, impair, infect, mangle, mar, mess, mess up, misrule, putrefy, spoil, spoilt), ‏هراء (balderdash, baloney, boloney, bosh, bull, bunk, claptrap, drivel, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, fudge, hocus pocus, humbug, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, piffling, ramble, rigmarole, rubbish, slush, tosh, trash, trumpery, wind), ‏نخر الحنطة, ‏نخر (carious, gnaw, grunt, sneer), ‏حماقة (blindness, brainlessness, brutishness, crap, doltishness, dumbness, emptiness, fatuity, fatuousness, fat-wittedness, feeblemindedness, folly, foolery, gaffe, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, idiocy, imbecility, insanity, nonsense, silliness, stupidity, thick-wittedness, tomfoolery, unwisdom, weak-mindedness), ‏تفسخ (decadence, decay, degeneracy, degenerate, degeneration, degradation, derogate, disintegrate, disintegration, molder, moulder), ‏تسوس, ‏تعفن (corruption, decay, decompose, decomposition, infection, mildew, mold, molder, moldiness, mould, moulder, mouldiness, mustiness, perish, putrefaction, putrefy, putrescence, putridity, sweat), ‏العفن, ‏بلاهة (brainlessness, density, dullness, idiocy, imbecility, retardation, silliness, stupidity). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разлагам се (decay, dissociate, moulder), шегувам се (chaff, gag, jape, jest, joke, jolly, rally, sport), гния (corrupt, decay, decompose, fester, languish, putrefy), гниене (corruption, decay, putrefaction), гнилост (putrefaction, putrescence, putridity, putridness, rottenness), глупости (all my eye, applesauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blah, bleat, blether, boloney, bosh, bull, buncombe, cod, crap, drivel, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flapdoodle, footle, fudge, guff, gup, hokum, humbug, jiggery pokery, junk, kibosh, monkey business, monkeybusiness, nonsense, nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rhubarb, rubbish, shucks, slush, stuff and nonsense, tack, tommy rot, truck, trumpery), метил (fluke, methyl, trematode), закачам се (grapple, grip, hang oneself, lark, snag), загниване (cariosity, decay), загнивам (become rotten, molder, moulder, perish), поредица провали, поквара (corruption, debauchery, depravity, gangrene, infamy, obliquity, ruin, taint, ulcer), плуя (decay, roll, run, soak), плесенясвам (get moldy, get mouldy, grow musty, mildew), плесен (fungus, mildew, mould, must, smut). (various references)

Chinese 

腐烂 (Putrescent, rotten), 腐壞 . (various references)

Czech

upadat (be on the decline, decline, fall, wane), trouchnivìt (decay, moulder), trouchnivìní (decay), tlení (decay), tlít (decay, moulder), plíseò (blight, mildew, mould, rust), nesmysl (absurdity, balderdash, bunk, nonsense, nuts, rubbish, tripe, trumpery), kaz (blemish, defect, fault, flaw, hole), hniloba (putrefaction, putridity), hnít (decay, putrefy). (various references)

Danish

rådne (putrefy). (various references)

Dutch

verrotten (putrefy), vergaan (drown, march off, pass, pass by, perish, putrefy, retreat, withdraw), rotten (putrefy), bederven (bribe, damage, go bad, injure, putrefy, spoil). (various references)

Esperanto

putri (putrefy). (various references)

Faeroese

rotna (putrefy). (various references)

Farsi 

فاسدکردن (Bastardize, Canker, Corrupt, Debauch, Deprave, Ruin, Spoil, Taint, Vitiate), پوسیدن (Corrode, Decay, Putrefy), ضایع شدن . (various references)

Finnish

mätä (decay, decayed, lousy, pus, rotten), mädätä (decay, putrefy). (various references)

French

pourrir (spoil smb. rotten). (various references)

Frisian

rotsje (putrefy), ferrotsje (putrefy). (various references)

German

verfaulen (decay, degenerate, fester, putrefy, rod, rot away, to fester), verwesen (decay, decompose, molder, putrefy), faulen (decay, go bad, putrefy, putrescences, rod), Fäulnis (decadence, decay, degeneracy, putrefaction, putrescence, rottenness, sepsis). (various references)

Greek 

σαπίζω (damp off, decay, decompose, molder, mortify, moulder, putrefy), σαπίλα (cariosity, cariousness, decay, putrescence, putridity, putridness, rottenness). (various references)

Hebrew 

מקמוק (decay, decomposition, putridity), מקק (gangrene, putrefaction, sphacelus), מק (decay, gangrene, putridity), מסוס, למקמק (decompose), להמק (be consumed, perish), להרקיב (decay), להרקב (decay, molder, moulder, putrefy), להנמק (be explained, be reasoned), לרקוב (decay, putrefy), שטויות (applesauce, balderdash, baloney, bunk, drivel, moonshine, nonsense, nuts, rubbish, stuff and nonsense, tommyrot, tosh, trash, trumpery), הרקבות (decomposition, rotting), רקבון (corrosion, corruption, decay, moldiness, putrefaction, putrescence, rankness, rottenness), רקב (decay, gangrene, putrefaction, putridity, rotten), נמק (decay, putrefaction, putrefactive). (various references)

Hungarian

rothadás (corruption, decay, dry-rot, putrefaction, putrescence), korhadás (corruption, dry rot, dry-rot, festering). (various references)

Icelandic

morkna (putrefy). (various references)

Indonesian

membusuk (decompose, putrefy), kebusukan (badness, decay, decomposition, depravation, putridness, rottenness). (various references)

Irish

dreoigh. (various references)

Italian

putrefazione (corruption, decay, putrefaction, rottenness), marciume (putrefaction, rottenness), marcire (decay, fester, go bad, rod, waste away). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

腐朽 (deterioration), ロッグウッドの木 (lodge, logwood, lotte, Lotteria, robber, rod, rod antenna, rodeo, Rosser, Rossini, Rotring). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ロット , ふきゅう (deterioration, diffusion, eternal, everlasting, immortal, immortality, imperishable, in no hurry, nonessential, spread). (various references)

Korean 

썩음 (Putrefying, rotting). (various references)

Malay

memburuk (putrefy). (various references)

Manx

trouise (crowd, dowdy, literary garbage, rubbish, slattern, sloven, trollop, trumpery; trash, trumpery; trash of person), molkey (decay; putrefaction, mortify, putrefy, rotting, sepsis), loauys (caries, decay, gangrene, putresence, putridity, rottenness), loauid (cariousness, foulness, putrefaction, putridity, rottenness, staleness), loaughey (canker, decay, decompose, decomposition), loauaghey (gangrene, go off, putrefy, rotting). (various references)

Papiamen

putri (putrefy). (various references)

Pig Latin

otray.(various references)

Portuguese

podridão (carrion, putridity, rottenness), apodrecer (decay, fester, molder, moulder, putrefy, taint). (various references)

Romanian

topi (consume, destroy, dissolve, flux, found, fuse, melt, melt down, render, ret, smelt, thaw, wick), strica (bastardize, batter, bedevil, blast, blight, break, bungle, contaminate, corrupt, crack, cripple, damage, debauch, decompose, deface, deflower, demolish, deprave, derange, destroy, disarrange, disconcert, disfigure, disorganize, disturb, flaw, frustrate, hackle, harm, hurt, impair, injure, Mar, muck, muddle, pervert, pip, quash, sophisticate, spoil, taint, vitiate, wreck), se caria (decay), se înşela (be under a delusion, deceive oneself, do wrong to smb., make a mistake, mistake, slip up), putrezire (decay, putrefaction), putrezi (damp off, decay, decompose, fester, putrefy, ret), lanţ de cârlig, fleac (a piece of cake, bauble, bunkum, chaff, doit, fillip, flapdoodle, flea-bite, flummery, fribble, kickshaw, knick knack, nil, nothing, nothingness, peppercorn, pin head, push over, rubbish, rubble, small beer, stiver, tittle tattle, trash, trifle, trinket), dobitocie (dullness, stupidity), descompune (analyse, analyze, crumble, decompose, disintegrate, dissolve, resolve), degenera (degenerate, degrade, depauperate, deteriorate, dewindle), decãdea (decay, decline, deteriorate, dilapidate, fall, fall into decay, go down, go to seed, lapse, putrefy, ruin, run to seed), cãdere (authority, becomingness, break down, collapse, cropper, debacle, destruction, downfall, drop, failure, fall, labefaction, lapse, plump, spill, Turkey), aprinde (animate, beacon, blush, enkindle, excite, fan, fire, heat, ignite, inflame, kindle, light, light up, redden, shine, strike). (various references)

Russian 

сгнить (go bad), гнить порча, гнить (decay, decompose, putrefied, putrefy, putrefying), гниение (decay, decomposition, putrefactation, putrescence), вращательный (gyratory, rotative, rotatory, vortical), вздор (all my eye, balderdash, baloney, blah, boloney, bosh, fiddlesticks, flimflam, fudge, gammon, humbug, jiggery pokery, kibosh, mush, nonsense, poppycock, rubbish, tommy rot, tommyrot, tosh), неудача (abortion, adverseness, bad, bad luck, crab, down, dud, fail, failing, failure, fiasco, hard luck, hoodoo, ill fortune, ill success, ill-luck, mischance, misfortune, mishap, no go, rebuff, reverse, setback, washout), мочить (rait, water, wet), загнить (decay), провал (failing, failure, fiasco, frost, plough, plow, pluck), истлевать (decay). (various references)

Scottish

breo, breoth. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

trulež (decay, dry rot), koještarija (baloney, bilge, buncombe, bunk, bunko, cobbler, crap, humbug, moonshine, nonsense, rigmarole), istruliti (decompose, putrefy), dovesti do truljenja. (various references)

Spanish

putrefacción (corruption, decay, depravation, putrefaction, putrescence, rottenness, taint). (various references)

Swedish

röta (decay, dry rot, grub, luck, ret). (various references)

Thai

เรื่องไร้สาระ (banana oil, bologan, cock and bull story, hoo-ha, kak), ทำให้เน่าเปื่อย (putrefy). (various references)

Turkish

zırvalamak (blah blah, flap, gab, talk nonsense, twaddle), zırva (balderdash, baloney, bilge, blather, blether, boloney, bosh, bull, bunk, bunkum, eyewash, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flapdoodle, flimflam, gammon, garbage, gassing, hooey, jabber wocky, nonsense, punk, raving, ravings, rubbish, stuff, tommyrot, twaddle), terbiyesi bozulmak, takılmak (banter, be affixed, be attached, catch, chaff, chip, guy, hang out, haunt, hook, impose oneself on, jam, jam in, jolly, Josh, kid, lark, lark about, lark around, lock, lock on, pull smb.'s leg, rally, rib, seize, seize up, snag, sport, stick, stick around, tease), saçmalamak (blah blah, blather, blether, drivel, drool, flap, gab, gas, piffle, rave, talk nonsense, talk through one's hat, talk wild, twaddle, waffle, yap), saçmalık (absurdity, applesauce, balderdash, bilge, blather, blatherskite, blether, bosh, drivel, extravagance, eyewash, farce, fatuity, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, gab, galimatias, gassing, gibberish, guff, hog-wash, hokum, hooey, inanity, ineptitude, ineptness, insanity, irrationality, lark, malarkey, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, punk, rubbish, shenanigan, silliness, spinach, stuff, talkee-talkee, the irrational, trash, triviality, twaddle, vacuity, whimsicality, whimsicalness, wind, wishy-wash), saçma (absurd, applesauce, balls, baloney, blind, boloney, bunk, bunkum, chimerical, claptrap, cockeyed, dissemination, eradiation, fantastic, fantastical, farcical, fatuous, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, fiddlesticks, foolish, for the birds, froth, frothy, fudge, go on, hog-wash, hooey, impertinent, inane, incongruous, inept, irrational, jabber wocky, kibosh, laugh, malarkey, nonsense, nonsensical, outlandish, paltry, pointless, poppycock, raving, rhubarb, scattering, senseless, shot, shucks, skittles, small shot, smearcase, sorry, spinach, stuff, tommyrot, tosh, trash, trifling, tripe, trivial, trumpery, unreasonable, wacky, waffle, whacky), kokuşmak (go bad, putrefy, taint), bozulmak (addle, break down, break up, bust, collapse, conk, decay, decline, deteriorate, disrupt, dwindle, ebb, fail, get out of hand, get out of order, go bad, go haywire, go off, go sour, go under, go wrong, lose face, perish, retrograde, retrogress, sour, spoil, stale, taint, turn, turn sour, upset), bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), alay etmek (deride, flout, gibe, gird at, gird at smb., give smb. a roasting, groove, guy, hold in derision, ironize, jape, jeer, jeer at, jibe, jolly, Josh, laugh at, make a game of, make a jest of, make fun of, make merry over, mock, poke fun, poke fun at smb., pull smb.'s leg, razz, ridicule, roast, scoff, take the mickey out of smb., taunt), çürütmek (canker, cause to rot, confute, controvert, contuse, corrode, corrupt, decay, decompose, disproof, disprove, explode, molder, moulder, pick to pieces, putrefy, rebut, refute, stultify), çürümek (become unsound, canker, decay, decline, decompose, fester, go bad, go off, languish, molder, moulder, perish, putrefy, ret, sphacelate, spoil), çürüme (corruption, decay, decomposition, dry rot, putrefaction, rottenness). (various references)

Turkmen 

зьяremek. (various references)

Ukrainian

розкладатися (canker, corrupt, decay, disintegrate, molder, moulder, putrefy, resolve), гниття (decay, decomposition, putrefaction, putrescence), гнити (decay, decompose, fester, putrefy), гниль (putridity). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự mục nát. (various references)

Welsh

pydru (putrefy), pydredd (putridity, rottenness), mallu (blast, blight), malltod (blast, blight), madru (fester, putrefy), braenu (putrify). (various references)

conputrescebant, conputrescent, conputrescet, conputruerant, conputruerat, conputruerunt, conputruit, putesco, putrescat, putrescere. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "rot": rota, rotameter, rotameters, rotaries, rotary, rotas, rotatable, rotate, rotated, rotates, rotating, rotation, rotational, rotations, rotative, rotatively, rotator, rotatores, rotators, rotatory, rotavirus, rotaviruses, rotch, rotche, rotches, rote, rotenone, rotenones, rotes, rotgut, rotguts, roti, rotifer, rotifers, rotiform, rotis, rotisserie, rotisseries, rotl, rotls, roto, rotogravure, rotogravures, rotor, rotorcraft, rotors, rotos, rototill, rototilled, rototiller, rototillers. (additional references)

Words ending with "rot": agorot, carrot, dogtrot, foxtrot, grot, haftarot, haftorot, haphtarot, lirot, outtrot, parrot, pierrot, tarot, tommyrot, torot, trot. (additional references)

Words containing "rot": acrotic, acrotism, acrotisms, aerothermodynamic, aerothermodynamics, agoroth, amaurotic, ambrotype, ambrotypes, antierotic, antiproton, antiprotons, apolipoprotein, apolipoproteins, aponeurotic, aprotic, arteriosclerotic, arteriosclerotics, atherosclerotic, autoerotic, autoeroticism, autoeroticisms, autoerotism, autoerotisms, autorotate, autorotated, autorotates, autorotating, autorotation, autorotations, betroth, betrothal, betrothals, betrothed, betrotheds, betrothing, betroths, birrotch, broth, brothel, brothels, brother, brothered, brotherhood, brotherhoods, brothering, brotherliness, brotherlinesses, brotherly, brothers, broths. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Rot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aroot, arot, drot, erot, erott, erto, irot, orft, orhoit, orot, Orta, prott, raot, ratt, raut, reh, Rejt, reot, Retb, rett, rhot, rit, ritm, ritt, rkt, rlo, ro, roa, Roat, Robt, roch, roct, roet, rof, roft, rog, roh, roht, roi, roit, roj, rok, rolt, romt, roo, rooty, roq, Ror, rort, Rorty, rosh, rotc, rotf, Roti, rotl, roto, Rotp, rott, rou, rov, rowt, rox, roz, rst, rt, rtd, rto, rtoa, rtp, ruto, rutt, wrot. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ort, tor.

-1 letter: or, to.

+1 letter: bort, fort, grot, mort, orts, port, rato, riot, root, rota, rote, roti, rotl, roto, rots, rout, ryot, sort, taro, thro, tiro, tora, torc, tore, tori, torn, toro, torr, tors, tort, tory, tour, trio, trod, trop, trot, trow, troy, tyro, wort.

+2 letters: abort, actor, amort, aorta, aport, argot, boart, borts, borty, bortz, broth, court, croft, dorty, doter, droit, dropt, ergot, fetor, forte, forth, forts, forty, front, frost, froth, gator, griot, groat, grots, grout, horst, intro, korat, lirot, metro, morts, motor, nitro, north, noter, oater, ofter, orate, orbit, ortho, other, ottar, otter, outer, outre, overt, oxter, ports, prost, ratio, ratos, recto, repot, retro, riots, roast, robot, roost, roots, rooty, roset, rotas, rotch, rotes, rotis, rotls, rotor, rotos, rotte, roust, route, routh, routs, rowth, ryots, short, snort, sorts, sport, store, stork, storm, story, stour, strop, strow, stroy, tabor, tardo, taroc, tarok, taros, tarot, tenor, thorn, thoro, thorp, throb, throe, throw, tiros, toker, tolar, toner, toper, torah, toras, torch, torcs, tores, toric, torii, toros, torot, torse, torsi, torsk, torso, torte, torts, torus, toter, tours, tower, toyer, trigo, triol, trios, troak, trock, trode, trois, troke, troll, tromp, trona, trone, troop, trooz, trope, troth, trots, trout, trove, trows, troys, tumor, turbo, tutor, tyros, voter, whort, worst, worth, worts, wrote, wroth.