Rot

Verb

 * 1) to decay or decompose; to become bad

Derived terms

 * potter's rot

Noun

 * 1) The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
 * 2) Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
 * 3) Verbal nonsense.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:nonsense

Thesaurus
Texas fever, anthrax, aphthous fever, baloney, bighead, bilge, black quarter, blackleg, blackwater, blah, blah-blah, blast, blight, blind staggers, bloody flux, bop, bosh, break down, break up, broken wind, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, cancer, canker, caries, carrion, cattle plague, charbon, corrupt, corruption, crap, crumble, crumble into dust, dandruff, debase, debauch, decay, decline, decompose, decomposition, degenerate, demoralize, deprave, descend, disimprove, disintegrate, distemper, dry rot, excrement, fall into decay, fall to pieces, fester, filth, flapdoodle, foot-and-mouth disease, foul matter, foulness, fungus, furfur, gangrene, gapes, gas, glanders, go bad, go to pieces, guff, gup, heaves, hog cholera, hogwash, hokum, hooey, hoof-and-mouth disease, hot air, hydrophobia, liver rot, loco, loco disease, locoism, mad staggers, malarkey, malignant catarrh, malignant catarrhal fever, malignant pustule, mange, megrims, mess, mildew, milzbrand, mold, molder, moonshine, mortification, mortify, moth, moth and rust, muck, mucus, must, necrose, necrosis, obscenity, ordure, paratuberculosis, pervert, pest, piffle, pip, poppycock, pseudotuberculosis, pus, putrefaction, putrefy, putresce, putrescence, putrid matter, putridity, putridness, quarter evil, rabies, rancidity, rancidness, rankle, rankness, retrograde, rinderpest, rottenness, rubbish, rust, scabies, scat, scurf, scuz, sheep rot, shit, sink, slime, slough, smut, snot, sordes, sphacelate, sphacelation, sphacelus, splenic fever, spoil, spoilage, staggers, stain, stringhalt, suppurate, swine dysentery, taint, tommyrot, tooth decay, trash, tripe, turn, vitiate, warp, wind, worm, worsen

Etymology
From rotten:, roten:, from  rotian:, from, from , from. Cognate with rotsje:,  rotten:,  rößen:,  rotna:. See.

Verb

 * Arabic: أفسد, فسد
 * Armenian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 腐化, 腐壞, 腐坏, 腐爛, 腐烂
 * Czech:
 * Danish: rådne
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ლპობა, დალპობა, ჩალპობა, ხრწნა
 * German: verrotten,


 * Greek: σαπίζω
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 腐る
 * Korean: 썩다, 부패하아
 * Latgalian: ,
 * Latin: pūtesco, tābesco
 * Latvian: pūt
 * Lithuanian: pūti
 * Portuguese: putrefazer
 * Romanian: putrezi, descompune
 * Russian:, сгнить
 * Spanish:, podrir
 * Swedish: ruttna
 * Turkish: çürümek

Anagrams

 * ort, OTR, RTO, TOR, Tor, tor, TRO

Noun

 * 1) belcher

Etymology
ructus:

Adjective

 * 1) rotten, spoiled, decayed, putrid
 * 2) rotten, tedious, unkind, mean

Noun

 * 1) rot, something rotten, something rotting
 * 2) a military term meaning a lineup of men: file

Derived terms

 * een oude rot an old hand
 * rot op a not so friendly way to say go away (i.e.: fuck off)
 * rot- noun prefix to give it a negative meaning. For example: rotweer = shitty weather, die rothond = that damn dog

Verb
rot



Anagrams

 * tor

Noun

 * 1)  belch, burp

Etymology
ructus:.

Synonyms

 * renvoi

Adjective

 * 1) red
 * 2) red-haired (short for rothaarig)
 * 3)  leftist; on the left of the political spectrum
 * 4)  specifically, pertaining to the SPD (a large social democratic party in Germany) or Linke (a far-left political party in Germany)
 * 5)  Indian (pertaining to the Native Americans)

Alternative forms

 * roth

Etymology
From rot:, from  rot:, akin to Old Saxon rōd, Old Dutch rōd (modern Dutch rood); from, from a Proto-Indo-European *reudʰ-.

Derived terms

 * röten
 * rot-grün
 * rothaarig
 * Rotkehlchen
 * rötlich
 * rot-rot
 * rot-rot-grün
 * rot sehen
 * Rotstift
 * Rötung
 * Rotwein

Related terms

 * Rot

Adjective

 * 1) red

Etymology
From (compare Old English read:, Old Norse rauðr:) <.

Descendants

 * German:
 * Yiddish:

Noun

 * 1) root; the part of a plant under the surface.
 * 2) the part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place
 * 3) source; an underlying cause
 * Kärleken till pengar är roten till allt ont
 * The love of money is the root of all evil
 * 1)  of a number, a positive number which, when raised to a specified power, yields n; the square root is understood if no power is specified
 * Kubikroten ur 27 är 3
 * The cube root of 27 is 3
 * Multiplicera med roten ur 2
 * Multiply by root 2
 * 1)  a zero (of a function).
 * 2)  a designated node in a tree.
 * 3)  curl; a measure on how fast a vector field rotates: it can be described as the cross product of del and a given vectorial field
 * 4)  root directory
 * 5)  a word from which another word is derived.

Synonyms

 * källa (3)
 * nollställe (5)

Noun

 * 1) road, street
 * 2) * '2003, Mühlhäusler et al., Tok Pisin texts, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 9:
 * Planti liklik rot i stap long ailan hia.
 * Many little roads exist on this island.