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How to pronounce rot in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms buncombe, bunk, bunkum, guff, hogwash
Type of drivel, garbage
Has types irish bull, dogshit, shit, crap, bullshit, bull, horseshit
Type Words
Synonyms putrefaction
Type of decay
Has types putridness, corruption, rottenness, putrescence
Type Words
Synonyms breakdown, decomposition, putrefaction, rotting
Type of decay
Type Words
Synonyms waste
Type of degenerate, devolve, deteriorate, drop
Has types sphacelate, gangrene, mortify, necrose
Type Words
Synonyms decompose, molder, moulder
Type of decay
Has types biodegrade, hang
Derivation rotting

Examples of rot

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When is he going to be thrown in jail so he can rot while paying for his crimes?
From the washingtontimes.com
Their family members had abandoned them and they were left to rot by themselves.
From the kansas.com
The wood gets fuzzy when wet, and Klotsas said some have confused this with rot.
From the delawareonline.com
White mold at the base of European ginger plants leads to stem rot and collapse.
From the dispatch.com
The big problem is that no one has figured out a systematic way to stop the rot.
From the time.com
Peaches and cherries rot on trees, infested with insect life drawn by the smell.
From the abcnews.go.com
Some early symptoms are curled leaves caused by root rot damage from the fungus.
From the sacbee.com
And as for the Garden Festival, well it was left to rot after a couple of years.
From the independent.co.uk
Inspect them carefully for dry rot and make sure you have a good spare with you.
From the dailyherald.com
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  • Decompose: break down; "The bodies decomposed in the heat"
  • Putrefaction: a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
  • Decomposition: (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
  • Waste: become physically weaker; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"
  • Bunk: unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)
  • (rotted) decayed: damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless; "rotten floor boards"; "rotted beams"; "a decayed foundation"
  • Rot (German for Red) is the fifth studio album (sixth overall) by German rapper Sabrina Setlur, released by 3p Records on August 24, 2007 (see 2007 in music). It was entirely co-produced by Martin Haas and Moses Pelham, with additional contribution by Bayz Benzon. ...
  • The aviation term ROT stands for rate one turn, also known as a standard rate turn. All aircraft must be able to perform a standard rate turn.
  • In vector calculus, the curl (or rotor) is a vector operator that describes the infinitesimal rotation of a 3-dimensional vector field. At every point in the field, the curl is represented by a vector. The attributes of this vector (length and direction) characterize the rotation at that point.