<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used without object) rotted, rotting.<ul><li>To undergo decomposition; decay.</li><li>Synonyms: spoil, putrefy, molder, mold.</li><li>To deteriorate, disintegrate, fall, or become weak due to decay (often followed by away, from, off, etc.).</li><li>To languish, as in confinement.</li><li>To become morally corrupt or offensive.</li><li>Antonyms: purify.</li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>The process of rotting.</li><li>The state of being rotten; decay; putrefaction: the rot of an old house.</li><li>Synonyms: mold, decomposition.</li><li>Rotting or rotten matter: the rot and waste of a swamp.</li><li>Moral or social decay or corruption.</li><li>Pathology: any disease characterized by decay.</li><li>Plant Pathology: any of various forms of decay produced by fungi or bacteria.</li><li>Any disease so characterized.</li><li>Veterinary Pathology: a bacterial infection of sheep and cattle characterized by decay of the hoofs, caused by Fusobacterium necrophorum in cattle and Bacteroides nodosus in sheep.</li><li>Nonsense.</li></ul><p><strong>Interjection</strong></p><ul><li>(used to express disagreement, distaste, or disgust.)</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>