Crossword clues for rot
rot
- Undergo decomposition
- Turn into compost
- Complete nonsense
- Become rancid, in a way
- Turn green, perhaps
- Stay forever, as in jail
- Lumber problem
- Go bad, in a way
- Go bad, as food
- Total nonsense
- Sit in a dump
- Root problem
- Root ___ (plant disease)
- Make a big stink?
- It befalls fallen fruit
- Go to pot
- Go bad, as vegetables
- Get sour
- Get rancid
- British baloney
- What some things do to raise a stink
- Turn bad, as meat
- Start to stink, perhaps
- Spoil, like old meat
- Spoil, like old food
- Go bad, as a plum
- Dry ___ (wood decay)
- Dry ___ (problem that affects wood)
- DevilDriver "Head on to Heartache (Let Them ___)"
- Cause of malodors
- Brit's baloney
- Become degenerate
- Arborist's woe
- "Stuff and nonsense!"
- "For Those About to ___"
- Zombie affliction
- Word after tommy
- Wood deck ruiner
- What untreated wood will do, over time
- What Sponge's "Pinata" will do
- Utter rubbish
- Utter malarkey
- Utter drivel
- Turn, so to speak
- Turn, as a turnip
- Turn, as a lemon
- Turn to mush, as a banana
- Turn green without envy?
- Turn bad, like old fruit
- Tommy's follower?
- Tommy follower
- Tommy add-on
- Start to stink, say
- Start to smell, perhaps
- Spoil, as spinach
- Sometimes dry item
- Smell up the fridge, say
- Sepultura "Filthy ___"
- Problem in old wood
- Problem affecting old lumber
- Pacer that places
- Nonsense, in London
- Lose edibility
- Languish in prison, slangily
- Languish in prison
- Home inspection find
- Grow rancid
- Grow mold
- Go way past ripeness
- Go rancid
- Go foul?
- Go bad, like old vegetables
- Go bad, like old meat
- Go bad, like fruit
- Go bad, like a piece of fruit
- Go bad, as old meat
- Go bad, as an old piece of fruit
- Go bad, as a pear
- Get spoiled
- Get soft and mushy
- Get decayed
- Fruit concern
- Fall to ruin
- Fall prey to decay
- Fall apart, perhaps
- Emulate a bad egg
- Dry or tommy
- Decompose, like moldy vegetables
- Decompose, like a moldy apple
- Decline in integrity
- Cause of malodor, perhaps
- Brit's "Nonsense!"
- Break down to dust
- Bosh or tosh
- Begin to smell bad, say
- Become yucky, perhaps
- Become rancid and decayed
- Become mulch
- Become moldy
- Become maggot-infested, perhaps
- Become inedible, perhaps
- Become a bad apple?
- Beans or baloney
- "Nonsense!," to a Brit
- Droll nonsense — could it bring the house down?
- Timber decay
- Mould on grapes used for certain wines
- Timber fungus
- Go to pieces
- Balderdash
- Twaddle
- "Oh, darn!"
- Deteriorate
- "Poppycock!"
- Rubbish or trash
- Go bad, as fruit
- Bunk
- Degenerate badly
- Nonsense, to a Brit
- Poppycock
- "Baloney!"
- Horsefeathers
- Decay away
- Spoil, as food
- Dry ___ (wood problem)
- Root problem?
- Humbug
- Become unusable
- Baloney
- Become inedible, in a way
- Ludicrous comments
- Go to seed
- Eyewash
- Hooey
- Turn bad, like fruit
- Raise a stink?
- Gibberish
- Fail to keep
- Make a stink?
- Break down
- Malarkey
- Form compost
- Flapdoodle
- Applesauce
- Decompose naturally
- Go to waste, in a way
- Drivel
- Turn sour
- "Hogwash!"
- Moonshine
- Languish, as in jail
- Hogwash
- Claptrap
- Hokum
- Start making a stink?
- Start to smell, maybe
- Pure baloney
- Tripe
- Spoilage added to the seven longest Across answers
- Bushwa
- Cheap booze
- Gobbledygook
- Flummery
- Carrot or beet
- Blather
- Bunkum
- Biodegrade, say
- Floorboard problem
- Garbage
- Crazy talk
- Corruption from deep inside
- Wood problem
- Turn to mush, say
- Codswallop
- Go to the dogs
- "Balderdash!"
- Blarney
- Go beyond ripe
- Bilge
- A ludicrously false statement
- Decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
- (biology) decaying caused by bacterial or fungal action
- Trumpery
- Putrefy
- Putrify
- Dry ___ (plant disease)
- Bosh!
- Buncombe
- Piffle or twaddle
- Molder
- Tommy chaser
- Expression of contempt
- Tommy follower?
- Work schedule incomplete? Nonsense
- Nonsense coming from revolutionary needing no introduction
- Rubbish; decay
- Rubbish to run over
- Rubbish from Jethro Tull
- Root vegetable loses half to decay
- Break down rubbish
- Empty talk
- Utter nonsense
- Foolish talk
- Waste away
- Become compost, perhaps
- Turn rancid
- Raise a stink
- Disintegrate slowly
- Turn to compost
- Fall into decay
- Bunch of baloney
- Nonsensical talk
- Undergo decay
- Stuff and nonsense!
- Become decayed
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bane \Bane\ (b[=a]n), n. [OE. bane destruction, AS. bana murderer; akin to Icel. bani death, murderer, OHG. bana murder, bano murderer, Goth. banja stroke, wound, Gr. foney`s murderer, fo`nos murder, OIr. bath death, benim I strike.
That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality. [Obs. except in combination, as in ratsbane, henbane, etc.]
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Destruction; death. [Obs.]
The cup of deception spiced and tempered to their bane.
--Milton. -
Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe.
Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe.
--Herbert. -
A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot.
Syn: Poison; ruin; destruction; injury; pest.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English rotian "to decay, putrefy," from Proto-Germanic *rutjan (cognates: Old Saxon roton, Old Norse rotna, Old Frisian rotia, Middle Dutch roten, Dutch rotten, Old High German rozzen "to rot," German rößen "to steep flax"), from stem *rut-. Related: Rotted; rotting.
early 14c., from rot (v.) or of Scandinavian origin (compare Icelandic rot, Swedish röta, Danish røde "decay, putrefaction"), from the root of the verb. Slang noun sense of "rubbish, trash" is from 1848.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction. 2 Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs. 3 Verbal nonsense. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungus or bacteri
2 (context intransitive English) To decline in function or utility. 3 (context intransitive English) To deteriorate in any way. 4 (context transitive English) To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes. 5 (context transitive English) To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
WordNet
n. decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor [syn: putrefaction]
(biology) decaying caused by bacterial or fungal action [syn: decomposition, rotting, putrefaction]
unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) [syn: bunk, bunkum, buncombe, guff, hogwash]
Wikipedia
The initialism ROT may refer to:
- Rate of Turn, the speed at which a ship, vessel, or unit is turning at, or is capable of turning at, measured in degrees per second, used in aviation, naval, and space environments
- Recording of Transmission, a term used in broadcasting
- The Refugee Olympic Team at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Republic of Taiwan (disambiguation)
- Republic of Texas
- Retroactive overtime, overtime which is paid in addition to bonuses and commissions
- ROT (aviation), or rate one turn, a required turning rate for aircraft
- ROT (MUD), in online gaming, a multi-user dungeon codebase
- Rotorua Airport, New Zealand
- Rule Of Thumb
- Remotely Operated Tool, used in the offshore industry
- ROT13, an early form of encryption.
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 album was critically acclaimed, but has widely failed to receive any commercial success yet, becoming Setlur's lowest-charting studio album to date.
The Rot is a southern tributary of the river Danube in the region of Upper Swabia in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It has a length of 54 km.
The Rot runs in a northerly direction parallel to the river Iller to the east, and Westernach to the west. Both these rivers are also tributaries to the Danube.
Rot is the fourth album by German, electro-industrial/ aggrotech band, [:SITD:]. It was released in 2009 on the Accession Records label in Germany and on the Metropolis Records label in the United States. Accession Records also released a deluxe edition containing a bonus disc.
''' Rot (Kocher) ''' is a river of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
''' Rot (Wurzacher Ach) ''' is a river of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Usage examples of "rot".
A sound like poor dead Acton might make, watching his own remains rotting out there on the rift?
A squalid alameda where there stood a rotting brushwood gazebo and a few old iron benches.
The emotion still appalled and nauseated her, like something rotting in her stomach.
Their Thor and Odin were at first, probably, only the thunder and the wind: but they had to be appeased in the dark marches of the forest, where hung rotting on the sacred oaks, amid carcases of goat and horse, the carcases of human victims.
The buildings were constructed for the most part of squared-off logs, since stone was rare here on the vast, soggy delta of the Arjun River, and the logs appeared to have been attacked by damp rot almost before they were in place.
But today was market day down in Aspic Hole, and the pungent slick of dung-smell and rot that rolled over New Crobuzon was, in these streets, for these hours, improved with paprika and fresh tomato, hot oil and fish and cinnamon, cured meat, banana and onion.
Mit dem letzten Rest seiner Kraft versuchte er, von diesen kalten roten Augen wegzusehen.
Schnabel blitzte in dem roten Licht, die Augen darin waren keine Menschenaugen.
In the years following the First Opium War disasters multiplied, taxes were increased upon the peasantry, corruption in the governing mandarinate became systematic, respect for authority declined, power decentralized, banditry flourished, sovereignty rotted at the center.
As the refuse rotted underground, it gave off biogas, chiefly methane.
His bubo had begun to drain again, a thick, dark liquid that smelled like rotting meat.
We have seen the application of the oil of vitriol to Calamine yields white vitriol and know how this agent toils against the powers of destruction and rot.
In the blaze of his magnificence, men would forget that a handful of desperate Caphars behind rotting walls had closed his road to empire.
Perhaps a charnel house of human bodies, dismembered and gory, raw with frightful cicatrices, oozing filth from sick and rotting sores.
He was an old man whose body was collapsing under the oppressive weight of a rotting, wasting disease, whose mind was stiff with coagulated dream-emissions.