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rot
rot is a 3-letter English word with 12 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 3 in Scrabble and 3 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 3 · Words With Friends 3 · 12 senses
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- 1intransitive verb
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.
- 2intransitive verb
Figuratively: To perish slowly; to decay; to die; to become corrupt.
- 3transitive verb
To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes; as, to rot vegetable fiber.
- 4transitive verb
To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
- 5noun
Process of rotting; decay; putrefaction.
- 6noun
A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi. See Bitter rot, Black rot, etc., below.
- 7noun
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.
- 8noun
unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)
- 9noun
(biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
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- 10noun
a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
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- 11verb
become physically weaker
"Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"
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- 12verb
break down
"The bodies decomposed in the heat"
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