| 单词 | rot |
| 释义 | rot (once / 679 pages) 1vn 2n To rot is to decompose, or break down into smaller parts. When old food at the back of your refrigerator rots, you should throw it away. Sometimes you can tell when something is beginning to rot because it smells bad. But the process that occurs when things rot is a natural one that you can see all around you as you walk through the woods or along the beach. Living organisms have to rot after they die, to make room for more organisms. WORD FAMILYrot: rots, rotted, rotting+/rotted: rottedest, rottedly USAGE EXAMPLESAddiction is like termite rot, eating at the foundation of a community. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) Rotting food is a problem even as 90 percent of Venezuelans say they can’t afford enough to eat. Seattle Times(Dec 27, 2016) It seems to work well even in places with a lot of natural sugar sources, like flowers and rotting fruit. Seattle Times(Dec 23, 2016) 1 1v break down Syn|Hypo|Hyper decompose, molder, moulder biodegrade break down naturally through the action of biological agents hangsuspend (meat) in order to get a gamey taste decay undergo decay or decomposition 2v become physically weaker Syn|Hypo|Hyper waste gangrene, mortify, necrose, sphacelate undergo necrosis degenerate, deteriorate, devolve, drop grow worse 3n a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor Syn|Hypo|Hyper putrefaction corruption, putrescence, putridness, rottenness a state of progressive putrefaction decay an inferior state resulting from the process of decaying 4n (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action 2Syn|Hyper decomposition, putrefaction, rotting decay the process of gradually becoming inferior n unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) Syn|Hypo|Hyper buncombe, bunk, bunkum, guff, hogwash bull obscene words for unacceptable behavior drivel, garbage a worthless message |
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