[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

rot \rot\, v. i. imp.  p. p. rotted; p. pr.  vb. n.
   rotting. oe. rotien, as. rotian; akin to d. rotten, prov.
   g. rotten, ohg. rozz?n, g. r"osten to steep flax, icel.
   rotna to rot, sw. ruttna, dan. raadne, icel. rottin rotten.
   root117. cf. ret, rotten.
   1. to undergo a process common to organic substances by which
      they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through
      certain chemical changes, giving off usually in some
      stages of the process more or less offensive odors; to
      become decomposed by a natural process; to putrefy; to
      decay.
      1913 webster

            fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot,
            to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot. --pope.
      1913 webster

   2. figuratively: to perish slowly; to decay; to die; to
      become corrupt.
      1913 webster

            four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons.
                                                  --macaulay.
      1913 webster

            rot, poor bachelor, in your club.     --thackeray.
      1913 webster

   syn: to putrefy; corrupt; decay; spoil.
        1913 webster
see also:
rotted rotting ret rotten 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

rot
     n 1: decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor syn: putrefaction
     2: biology decaying caused by bacterial or fungal action
        syn: decomposition, rotting, putrefaction
     3: unacceptable behavior especially ludicrously false
        statements syn: bunk, bunkum, buncombe, guff, hogwash
     v 1: break down; "the bodies decomposed in the heat" syn: decompose,
           molder, moulder
     2: waste away; "political prisoners are wasting away in many
        prisons all over the world" syn: waste
     also: rotting, rotted
see also:
putrefaction decomposition rotting bunk bunkum buncombe 
guff hogwash decompose molder moulder 
waste rotted 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

rotted
     adj : damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless; "rotten floor
           boards"; "rotted beams"; "a decayed foundation" syn: decayed,
            rotten
see also:
decayed rotten 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

rotted
     see rot
see also:
rot 

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