rot
rot
- n a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
- n (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
- n unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)
- v break down
- v become physically weaker
- In China, the capitalist Communists crouch behind their new Great Wall, an inconvertible yuan, only to struggle with an economic rot that cannot stay .
- Sometimes he just stuffed the fish into a dresser drawer at home and left them there to rot.
- In South Viet Nam a student who passes an exam is a dau; a flunkster is called a rot.