rot

verb8

1. •
   to slowly go bad and break down, as old food or dead wood does when very small living things eat it

   • The apple left in the cupboard all that time had started to rot.
2. •
   To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.
3. •
   To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
4. •
   (figurative) To spend a long period of time (in an unpleasant place or state).

   • If I hadn't rotted in bed all day I would've come...
5. •
   To decline in function or utility.

   • Your brain will rot if you spend so much time on the computer, Tony!
6. •
   To (cause to) deteriorate in any way, as in morals; to corrupt.
7. •
   (slang) Damn; blast.
8. •
   (slang, old-fashioned) To talk nonsense.

   • “Did they hang you well?” said Porson. “Don’t rot,” said Mr Watkins; “I don’t like it.” — 1894

noun4

1. •
   The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
2. •
   Decaying matter.

   • When a turkey vulture detects the scent of rot, it circles down, tracing the plume of chemicals to its source. — 2016
3. •
   Verbal nonsense.

   • You're talking rot! I don't believe a word.
4. •
   [in compounds] Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.

   • His cattle must of rot and murrain die. — 1658

noun1

1. •
   Abbreviation of rotation.

noun1

1. •
   Initialism of record of transmission.