Synonym: crumble, decay, disintegrate, spoil. Similar words: trot, rote, brother, broth, froth, proton, rotate, rotten. Meaning: [rɑt /rɒt] n. 1. a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor 2. (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action 3. unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements). v. 1. break down 2. waste away.
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91 Anything written with biro on cheap paper will quickly rot away creating yet more work for the conservators.
92 A: Perhaps your grapes are suffering from black rot, a fungal disease.
93 The treatment can be used indoors and outside, curing and preventing both wet and dry rot, and wood-worm attacks.
94 If water can penetrate and collect in joints, the wood will rot quickly unless steps are taken to prevent it.
95 The first is the crawl space beneath any suspended timber floors, where rot can quickly develop unless ventilation is good.
96 Millions of these books are shredded yearly or allowed to rot and gather dust in purgatorial existence.
97 His body was left to rot as a warning to others who might be tempted to stray from those paths of righteousness.
98 Each of the three sails was then treated with a special liquid to discourage mildew and rot.
99 Rot in Timber Timber decay which is not owed to insect action is normally the result of fungal attack.
100 As far as they're concerned we could rot in jail.
101 There are two possible strategies for the treatment of an attack of dry rot.
102 I took a big bite, put it back on the table and left it to rot throughout the night.
103 It is another to ask whether he has even begun to succeed in his short-term struggle to stop the rot.
104 Dead and dying trees had been left to rot, as had the slash that was now decaying into the ground.
105 You do talk rot!
106 If water gets inside the woodwork, it causes it to rot.
106 Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.
107 More riots in Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester, the inner cities left to rot or burn.
108 Cellars Cellars are notorious for damp, and for wet and dry rot, because often they have little or no ventilation.
109 If paper does not rot, why bother to substitute it for plastic?
110 The smell of damp and rot seemed to waft from the doorway as if expelled from putrid lungs.
111 It begins with a fluttering in the mould and rot of the leaf litter.
112 Sugar addicts gain weight, rot their teeth, and in extreme cases may even develop diabetes.
113 Carcasses are left to rot, while deer wounded by poor marksmen suffer lingering deaths.
114 The place stank of paraffin and turpentine and dry rot.
115 As strawberries ripen, push some straw or plastic sheeting under them so they can't rot on the soil.
116 In the gutter and against railings caches of autumn leaves were turning black with rot, a reminder of the distant summer.
117 As far as Greenpeace is concerned - unless the rot is stopped now rivers like the Severn are doomed to slow death by poisoning.
118 To me it held overtones of rot and decomposition, perhaps imaginary because of my worries about the condition of the raft.
119 It is cheaper to let them rot than to clear them away.
120 She would rage and scorn, and hold me close for a minute, and promise to leave him to rot away.