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

Definitions

1. intransitive 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.
2. intransitive verb. Figuratively: To perish slowly; to decay; to die; to become corrupt.
3. transitive verb. To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes; as, to rot vegetable fiber.
4. transitive verb. To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
5. noun. Process of rotting; decay; putrefaction.
6. noun. A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi. See Bitter rot, Black rot, etc., below.
7. noun. 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.
8. noun. unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)

   Synonyms: buncombe, bunk, bunkum, guff, hogwash

9. noun. (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action

   Synonyms: decomposition, putrefaction, rotting

10. noun. a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor

    Synonyms: putrefaction

11. verb. become physically weaker

    "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"

    Synonyms: waste

12. verb. break down

    "The bodies decomposed in the heat"

    Synonyms: decompose, molder, moulder

Synonyms

buncombe, bunk, bunkum, guff, hogwash, decomposition, putrefaction, rotting, waste, decompose, molder, moulder

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in rot:

ort, tor

Common word forms

rots, rotal, roter, rotes, rotted, rotter, rotting

Words from these letters

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