Definition of rot in English:

rot

verbrotted, rots, rotting rɒtrɑt

1(chiefly of animal or vegetable matter) decay or cause to decay by the action of bacteria and fungi; decompose.
（主要指动物或蔬菜）腐烂，腐坏；腐朽，破损
no object the chalets were neglected and their woodwork was rotting away
这些牧人小屋无人管理，房屋的木结构正在腐烂。
with object caries sets in at a weak point and spreads to rot the whole tooth
龋发生在损伤点，然后扩散使整颗牙腐烂。
Example sentencesExamples
- More than 20 years have passed since Janzen pondered why fruits rot, seeds mold, and meat spoils.
- A bruised pumpkin rots quickly and might not make it through the Halloween season.
- It looked ironically enough, like the most expensive house in the area, even though the wooden window frames were rotting away.
- Many producers are letting the beans rot on the trees, since it makes little economic sense to harvest them.
- They also demanded the return of their recently socialized grain reserves, noting that the grain was simply rotting in its current storage conditions.
- If they are not cremated, put to sea, left to rot or to wild animals, they are often buried.
- The lore holds that elephants can get drunk by eating the fermented fruit rotting on the ground.
- My tomatoes are rotting on the vine before they start to ripen.
- Potatoes rotted in the hold and drinking water grew thick and poured like oil.
- After a few days, the sought after botrytis-infected grape can rot further by the action of another fungus into a gooey grey lump.
- The tunnels were shored up by timber and after 85 years, many of these timber supports are rotting away.
- The wood was rotting on one side, and no smoke came from the brick chimney.
- She finds a massive tree that has died and rotted from the inside.
- Those eggs had been lying in the belltower for years rotting away.
- Virtually maintenance-free, the material will not rot, warp, or crack, the manufacturer says.
- The stalk rots completely and the top collapses.
- The rubbish rots and gives off gases like methane which is potentially explosive as well as adding to global warming.
- The Sathe-made laminated box would remain airtight until either the wood rotted away or someone broke the seal around the lid.
- He didn't let his teeth rot out in prison, unlike John there.
- The turf was stacked and left for 18 months to rot down.
Synonyms
decay, decompose, disintegrate, crumble, become rotten
corrode, perish
go bad, go off, spoil
go sour, moulder, go mouldy, taint
putrefy, fester, become gangrenous, mortify
rare necrose, sphacelate
1. 1.1no object Gradually deteriorate, especially through neglect.
  the education system has been allowed to rot
  他不明白这种教育制度是怎么会被听任退化的。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The seed that gave birth to ideas and images has slowly begun to rot - rot in it's apathetic existence.
  These players are rotting on the bench.
  I'll take good care of the restaurant… even while you rot in prison.
  People rot in jail awaiting trial, making the constitutional guarantee of a speedy trial a macabre joke.
  Sadly, a big chunk of this money mountain is rotting away in obsolete accounts that pay a pittance in interest.
  If they were willing to bribe a noxious couple to help a poor girl then what lengths might the this family go to when one of their own was rotting away in jail?
  Guards' keys jangled as you passed the idle silence and time of your life rotting away.
  Income equals consumption and no goods are left to rot on the shelves.
  Would you rather die a quick death or rot twenty to life in prison?
  Without a professional individual to bring her out, that filly would rot.
  None is more difficult to fathom than the studio, which occasionally buys the rights to a film, then allows it to rot away on a shelf.
  In the meantime, it might be a good time for those who have paintings by female artists rotting away in their basements to dust them off and put them up for sale.
  As I type this my body slowly rots away in the dingy, and dull prison known as… detention.
  Next was Lia, Lia who sat rotting away in the corners of a prison cell.
  Soon I won't be able to pay for these lessons, then I'll be stuck rotting away at home.
  Four PCs are rotting away in a Franklin County evidence room, and there is little their owners can do about it.
  For a moment she thought she very well might be rotting in a dungeon somewhere.
  I'm going to rot away in some jail.
  Synonyms
  deteriorate, degenerate, decline, decay, fall into decay, go to rack and ruin, become dilapidated, go to seed, go downhill, languish, moulder
  informal go to pot, go to the dogs, go down the toilet
2British dated, informal with object Make fun of; tease.
〈英，非正式，旧〉开…玩笑，取笑
has anybody been rotting you?
有人在取笑你吗？
Synonyms
make fun of, poke fun at, chaff, make jokes about, rag, mock, laugh at, guy, satirize, be sarcastic about

noun rɒtrɑt

mass noun

1The process of decaying.
腐烂，腐坏；腐朽，破损
the leaves were turning black with rot
树叶因腐烂在变黑。
Example sentencesExamples
- While most of the world is obsessed with sell-by dates, freshness and ripeness, the sleepy hamlet of Sauternes sits 30 miles south of Bordeaux, obsessed with rot, decay and fungus.
- In time the house will begin to show signs of rot, especially where it touches the ground.
- Recent research has shown that cement really just seals moisture in, and thus, promotes a faster rate of internal rot.
- The stench of rot, decay and refuse was thick in the air.
- Her head was spinning; the smell of rot and decay intensified, swirled in eddies around her.
- The aroma was similar to a death room, with the smell of decay, rot, and disinfectant.
- Many local museums, and indeed private collectors, store artifacts in less than ideal environments - for example, some storage places are damp and this can encourage rot and rust.
- Think of composting and worms immediately come to mind, not to mention such unsettling concepts as decay and rot.
- Boric acids or boric salts are products which traditionally used to protect buildings that perhaps have already suffered from some rot or decay.
- The air had a bite to it present only in the fall months; a snap of death that lacked the clean cold of December, filled instead with half-formed aromas of rot and decay.
- A gust of wind blasts against his face, carrying with it the scent of rot and decay and the suggestion of whispers.
- Ryell looked around for something, anything that might be of use, but he saw only the faded gray-blue cushions, the trim of the seats rusted over, the wood black with rot and decay.
- The room itself seemed to have taken on a quality of rot and rust.
- The products that on paper seemed to be bombproof and virtually inert turned out to be part of a system that propagates mold, mildew, and rot.
- He even asserts that as Noah used only gopher-wood for the ark, it was ‘probably resistant to both rot and termites’.
- Unlike wood, however, it is completely unaffected by damp, rot, decay, frost or insect attack.
- Inside the Great Mountains of the East it was dark and smelled of death and rot.
- The apartment block itself looms as large as any of the human characters with it's faded grandeur and slow decline into decay and rot.
- The air became easier to breath, losing the noxious stench of rot.
- Germs and rot were the last things that they needed right now.
1. 1.1 Rotten or decayed matter.
  腐烂物
  Example sentencesExamples
  If he sees rot or physical deformities at either end, he uses the grapple saw to snip off a two-foot section.
  As soon as they are rooted from the ground, they will begin to slowly decay and eventually wither into a brown mess of rot.
  Splitting the stalk reveals internal discoloration and soft slimy rot mostly initiating at the nodes.
  Stalks with significant rot will crush easily.
2. 1.2usually with modifier Any of a number of fungal or bacterial diseases that cause tissue deterioration, especially in plants.
  （尤指植物的）枯病
  Example sentencesExamples
  Sclerotinia crown and stem rot is a serious disease threat when seeding alfalfa and clovers in late summer.
  In central Nebraska, several fields are severely damaged by anthracnose stalk rot.
  As with wheat streak mosaic, we've had a few calls on crown rot causing partial stand loss.
  There was no evidence of any crown and root rot on plants examined during the October surveys.
  Waiting 5 to 10 days after the fly-safe date ensures escape from fall infections of barley yellow dwarf and lessens the potential of root rot and early season foliar diseases.
  Puddles can create ideal conditions for diseases such as root rot, damping off and seedling blight.
  That's because fungal diseases like witches broom and frosty pod rot are devastating cacao crops in Central and South America.
  Wines made from grapes affected by noble rot tend to have a particularly deep golden colour.
  Such antagonism may also protect the corn plant from the E verticillioides disease, stalk rot.
  The tropical climates where T. cacao grows best are also perfect incubators for fungal diseases like black pod, witches' broom, and frosty pod rot.
  The main problem is Rhizoctonia root rot, with heat canker also being reported in some areas.
  Sclerotinia stalk rot, the most significant sunflower disease in the United States, appears year in, year out, regardless of weather.
  Seed rot and seedling diseases caused by Pythium spp. develop early in the season under cool temperatures and wet soil conditions.
  The next challenge is that the noble rot will not attack all grapes at the same time.
  Witches' broom and monilia pod rot are found only in Central and South America, and the new species of black pod is restricted to Africa.
  The co-op's aim is to help customers protect against Phytophthora root rot and Rhizoctonia and give plants a better chance to emerge.
  Charcoal rot is a fungal disease favored by hot, dry weather at this stage in crop development.
  Bacterial stalk rot can affect the plant at any node from the soil surface up to the ear leaves and tassels.
  Pod and stem blight and Phomopsis seed rot occur throughout Ohio, but are more prevalent in the southern and western regions of the state.
  Saturated soils also favor root rot of adult plants later in the season.
  Synonyms
  decay, decomposition
  corrosion
  mould, mouldiness, mildew, blight, canker
  putrefaction, putrescence
  wet rot, dry rot
3. 1.3often the rot Liver rot in sheep.
  羊肝蛭病
2the rotBritish A process of deterioration; a decline in standards.
〈英〉恶化；腐败；堕落
there is enough talent in the team to stop the rot
队员们有足够的才智来阻止情况继续恶化。
it was when they moved back to the family home that the rot set in
正是当他们搬回家时，情况开始变得糟糕起来。
Example sentencesExamples
- She weighed in on the issue more than a year ago, officially requesting that the Minister's office do something to stop the apparent rot at the company.
- The ethical rot of highly paid professionals proved even deeper than imagined, with a mutual-fund scandal following scandals in Corporate America and on Wall Street.
- You thought the moral rot took hold in the sixties, didn't you?
- Afraid that the city centre itself was in danger of becoming a ‘no-go’ area, Ford had come to believe that only the shooting of identified ‘ring leaders’ would stop the rot.
- The rot continued, and the managers were eventually replaced with bankers friendly with the corporate heads.
- To stop the rot, gambling was legalized in 1976 as a means of attracting new visitors and providing resources for urban renewal and associated uplift.
- Possibly the rot set in a bit when Dalglish took over, and then when Ruud Gullit failed so badly to revive their fortunes.
- In a bid to stop the rot, the company has set sweeping price cuts of between 20 and 25 per cent, according to channel reports.
- In a statement the CWU said that it is ‘vital we stop the rot at an early stage’ or ‘tens of thousands of jobs’ could be lost in the UK.
- "If we bask in false security and drop our guard, the rot spreads, corrupting the entire society.
- Without wanting to sound immodest, they maintain they have arrived to stop the rot in British rock.
- The inability of independence to stop the rot has compounded Islamic frustration.
- However, many officers doubt it is enough to stop the rot.
- We have just seen an excellent example of the rot at the heart of this Government.
- He first had to determine just how deep the financial rot ran.
- Italy struggled for the early years barely getting above 3 centres, but he in turn reached 9 centres in 1911 before the rot set in and elimination arrived in 1919.
- The rot set in, however, when the company realised that they had a hit on their hands, and the second version was rushed into production.
- However, the imminent release of the Mevira and Signum models will help stop the rot.
- In recent years, Camelot has been struggling to curb falling ticket sales, launching a midweek draw in February 1997 in an attempt to stop the rot.
- Will the vote fall to a threshold which begins to cost the party safe seats, or can the party stop the rot as it claims?
Synonyms
deterioration, decline
corruption, canker, cancer
1. 2.1US Corruption on the part of officials.
  〈美〉官员腐败
  Example sentencesExamples
  He admitted yesterday he should have smelt the rot at the core of key planning decisions in the 1990s.
3British informal Nonsense; rubbish.
〈非正式〉蠢话；废话
don't talk rot
别胡说。
as exclamation ‘Rot!’ she said with vehemence
Example sentencesExamples
- The argument is rot; whenever a publisher lets the authorities bully a journalist in their employ, it puts a chill on the entire business of reporting freely.
- In the hands of lesser songsmiths, such lines would inevitably sound like so much rot, but Gough has a peculiar charm about him that gradually disarms the jaded listener.
- The liner notes talk about his adaptation of ‘twelve-tone technique’ to tonality, but this is rot, in my opinion.
- In our school, you're not allowed to climb trees - liabilities and all that rot.
- Superstitions were all very well and good if you believed in that kind of thing, from fortune telling to dreams that seemed to foretell the future, but in his opinion, it was all rot.
- They say it's to incite a new nationalistic spirit or some such rot.
- I don't know anything about any curse, it sounds like a lot of contrived rot to me.
- The production's claim to introduce ‘logical coherence’ is a lot of rot.
- You've just been in terrible trouble for saying that feminism is all rot and that it went off in the wrong direction.
Synonyms
nonsense, rubbish, balderdash, gibberish, claptrap, blarney, blather, blether
informal hogwash, baloney, tripe, drivel, bilge, bosh, bull, bunk, hot air, eyewash, piffle, poppycock, phooey, hooey, malarkey, twaddle, guff, dribble
British informal cobblers, codswallop, cock, stuff and nonsense, tosh
Scottish &amp Northern English informal havers
North American informal garbage, flapdoodle, blathers, wack, bushwa, applesauce
informal, dated bunkum, tommyrot, cod, gammon
North American vulgar slang crapola

Origin

Old English rotian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch rotten; the noun (Middle English) may have come via Scandinavian.

Rhymes

allot, begot, Bernadotte, blot, bot, capot, clot, cocotte, cot, culotte, dot, forgot, garrotte (US garrote), gavotte, got, grot, hot, jot, knot, lot, Mayotte, motte, not, Ott, outshot, plot, pot, sans-culotte, Scot, Scott, shallot, shot, slot, snot, sot, spot, squat, stot, swat, swot, tot, trot, undershot, Wat, Watt, what, wot, yacht

Definition of rot in US English:

rot

verbrätrɑt

1(chiefly of animal or vegetable matter) decay or cause to decay by the action of bacteria and fungi; decompose.
（主要指动物或蔬菜）腐烂，腐坏；腐朽，破损
no object the chalets were neglected and their woodwork was rotting away
这些牧人小屋无人管理，房屋的木结构正在腐烂。
with object caries sets in at a weak point and spreads to rot the whole tooth
龋发生在损伤点，然后扩散使整颗牙腐烂。
Example sentencesExamples
- After a few days, the sought after botrytis-infected grape can rot further by the action of another fungus into a gooey grey lump.
- A bruised pumpkin rots quickly and might not make it through the Halloween season.
- The Sathe-made laminated box would remain airtight until either the wood rotted away or someone broke the seal around the lid.
- They also demanded the return of their recently socialized grain reserves, noting that the grain was simply rotting in its current storage conditions.
- It looked ironically enough, like the most expensive house in the area, even though the wooden window frames were rotting away.
- The tunnels were shored up by timber and after 85 years, many of these timber supports are rotting away.
- She finds a massive tree that has died and rotted from the inside.
- The lore holds that elephants can get drunk by eating the fermented fruit rotting on the ground.
- Virtually maintenance-free, the material will not rot, warp, or crack, the manufacturer says.
- More than 20 years have passed since Janzen pondered why fruits rot, seeds mold, and meat spoils.
- My tomatoes are rotting on the vine before they start to ripen.
- Potatoes rotted in the hold and drinking water grew thick and poured like oil.
- The rubbish rots and gives off gases like methane which is potentially explosive as well as adding to global warming.
- Many producers are letting the beans rot on the trees, since it makes little economic sense to harvest them.
- The stalk rots completely and the top collapses.
- He didn't let his teeth rot out in prison, unlike John there.
- The turf was stacked and left for 18 months to rot down.
- Those eggs had been lying in the belltower for years rotting away.
- If they are not cremated, put to sea, left to rot or to wild animals, they are often buried.
- The wood was rotting on one side, and no smoke came from the brick chimney.
Synonyms
decay, decompose, disintegrate, crumble, become rotten
go bad, go off, spoil
1. 1.1 Gradually deteriorate through lack of attention or opportunity.
  〈喻〉逐渐恶化；退化
  he cannot understand the way the education system has been allowed to rot
  他不明白这种教育制度是怎么会被听任退化的。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I'll take good care of the restaurant… even while you rot in prison.
  People rot in jail awaiting trial, making the constitutional guarantee of a speedy trial a macabre joke.
  If they were willing to bribe a noxious couple to help a poor girl then what lengths might the this family go to when one of their own was rotting away in jail?
  Without a professional individual to bring her out, that filly would rot.
  Next was Lia, Lia who sat rotting away in the corners of a prison cell.
  The seed that gave birth to ideas and images has slowly begun to rot - rot in it's apathetic existence.
  I'm going to rot away in some jail.
  For a moment she thought she very well might be rotting in a dungeon somewhere.
  Guards' keys jangled as you passed the idle silence and time of your life rotting away.
  Soon I won't be able to pay for these lessons, then I'll be stuck rotting away at home.
  Four PCs are rotting away in a Franklin County evidence room, and there is little their owners can do about it.
  As I type this my body slowly rots away in the dingy, and dull prison known as… detention.
  None is more difficult to fathom than the studio, which occasionally buys the rights to a film, then allows it to rot away on a shelf.
  Would you rather die a quick death or rot twenty to life in prison?
  In the meantime, it might be a good time for those who have paintings by female artists rotting away in their basements to dust them off and put them up for sale.
  Sadly, a big chunk of this money mountain is rotting away in obsolete accounts that pay a pittance in interest.
  Income equals consumption and no goods are left to rot on the shelves.
  These players are rotting on the bench.
  Synonyms
  deteriorate, degenerate, decline, decay, fall into decay, go to rack and ruin, become dilapidated, go to seed, go downhill, languish, moulder

nounrätrɑt

1The process of decaying.
腐烂，腐坏；腐朽，破损
the leaves were turning black with rot
树叶因腐烂在变黑。
Example sentencesExamples
- The apartment block itself looms as large as any of the human characters with it's faded grandeur and slow decline into decay and rot.
- Inside the Great Mountains of the East it was dark and smelled of death and rot.
- The air had a bite to it present only in the fall months; a snap of death that lacked the clean cold of December, filled instead with half-formed aromas of rot and decay.
- Recent research has shown that cement really just seals moisture in, and thus, promotes a faster rate of internal rot.
- The room itself seemed to have taken on a quality of rot and rust.
- Boric acids or boric salts are products which traditionally used to protect buildings that perhaps have already suffered from some rot or decay.
- He even asserts that as Noah used only gopher-wood for the ark, it was ‘probably resistant to both rot and termites’.
- Think of composting and worms immediately come to mind, not to mention such unsettling concepts as decay and rot.
- The aroma was similar to a death room, with the smell of decay, rot, and disinfectant.
- The stench of rot, decay and refuse was thick in the air.
- The products that on paper seemed to be bombproof and virtually inert turned out to be part of a system that propagates mold, mildew, and rot.
- A gust of wind blasts against his face, carrying with it the scent of rot and decay and the suggestion of whispers.
- Her head was spinning; the smell of rot and decay intensified, swirled in eddies around her.
- Unlike wood, however, it is completely unaffected by damp, rot, decay, frost or insect attack.
- Germs and rot were the last things that they needed right now.
- While most of the world is obsessed with sell-by dates, freshness and ripeness, the sleepy hamlet of Sauternes sits 30 miles south of Bordeaux, obsessed with rot, decay and fungus.
- The air became easier to breath, losing the noxious stench of rot.
- Many local museums, and indeed private collectors, store artifacts in less than ideal environments - for example, some storage places are damp and this can encourage rot and rust.
- In time the house will begin to show signs of rot, especially where it touches the ground.
- Ryell looked around for something, anything that might be of use, but he saw only the faded gray-blue cushions, the trim of the seats rusted over, the wood black with rot and decay.
1. 1.1 Rotten or decayed matter.
  腐烂物
  she was busy cutting the rot from the potatoes
  Example sentencesExamples
  If he sees rot or physical deformities at either end, he uses the grapple saw to snip off a two-foot section.
  Stalks with significant rot will crush easily.
  Splitting the stalk reveals internal discoloration and soft slimy rot mostly initiating at the nodes.
  As soon as they are rooted from the ground, they will begin to slowly decay and eventually wither into a brown mess of rot.
2. 1.2usually with modifier Any of a number of fungal or bacterial diseases that cause tissue deterioration, especially in plants.
  （尤指植物的）枯病
  Example sentencesExamples
  The main problem is Rhizoctonia root rot, with heat canker also being reported in some areas.
  Pod and stem blight and Phomopsis seed rot occur throughout Ohio, but are more prevalent in the southern and western regions of the state.
  Charcoal rot is a fungal disease favored by hot, dry weather at this stage in crop development.
  That's because fungal diseases like witches broom and frosty pod rot are devastating cacao crops in Central and South America.
  The co-op's aim is to help customers protect against Phytophthora root rot and Rhizoctonia and give plants a better chance to emerge.
  There was no evidence of any crown and root rot on plants examined during the October surveys.
  Saturated soils also favor root rot of adult plants later in the season.
  Witches' broom and monilia pod rot are found only in Central and South America, and the new species of black pod is restricted to Africa.
  Puddles can create ideal conditions for diseases such as root rot, damping off and seedling blight.
  Wines made from grapes affected by noble rot tend to have a particularly deep golden colour.
  Such antagonism may also protect the corn plant from the E verticillioides disease, stalk rot.
  Seed rot and seedling diseases caused by Pythium spp. develop early in the season under cool temperatures and wet soil conditions.
  The tropical climates where T. cacao grows best are also perfect incubators for fungal diseases like black pod, witches' broom, and frosty pod rot.
  As with wheat streak mosaic, we've had a few calls on crown rot causing partial stand loss.
  Bacterial stalk rot can affect the plant at any node from the soil surface up to the ear leaves and tassels.
  Waiting 5 to 10 days after the fly-safe date ensures escape from fall infections of barley yellow dwarf and lessens the potential of root rot and early season foliar diseases.
  In central Nebraska, several fields are severely damaged by anthracnose stalk rot.
  Sclerotinia stalk rot, the most significant sunflower disease in the United States, appears year in, year out, regardless of weather.
  Sclerotinia crown and stem rot is a serious disease threat when seeding alfalfa and clovers in late summer.
  The next challenge is that the noble rot will not attack all grapes at the same time.
  Synonyms
  decay, decomposition
2the rotBritish A process of deterioration; a decline in standards.
〈英〉恶化；腐败；堕落
there is enough talent in the team to stop the rot
队员们有足够的才智来阻止情况继续恶化。
it was when they moved back to the family home that the rot set in
正是当他们搬回家时，情况开始变得糟糕起来。
Example sentencesExamples
- In recent years, Camelot has been struggling to curb falling ticket sales, launching a midweek draw in February 1997 in an attempt to stop the rot.
- Afraid that the city centre itself was in danger of becoming a ‘no-go’ area, Ford had come to believe that only the shooting of identified ‘ring leaders’ would stop the rot.
- The rot set in, however, when the company realised that they had a hit on their hands, and the second version was rushed into production.
- Will the vote fall to a threshold which begins to cost the party safe seats, or can the party stop the rot as it claims?
- He first had to determine just how deep the financial rot ran.
- "If we bask in false security and drop our guard, the rot spreads, corrupting the entire society.
- However, the imminent release of the Mevira and Signum models will help stop the rot.
- Without wanting to sound immodest, they maintain they have arrived to stop the rot in British rock.
- To stop the rot, gambling was legalized in 1976 as a means of attracting new visitors and providing resources for urban renewal and associated uplift.
- In a statement the CWU said that it is ‘vital we stop the rot at an early stage’ or ‘tens of thousands of jobs’ could be lost in the UK.
- We have just seen an excellent example of the rot at the heart of this Government.
- In a bid to stop the rot, the company has set sweeping price cuts of between 20 and 25 per cent, according to channel reports.
- The rot continued, and the managers were eventually replaced with bankers friendly with the corporate heads.
- The ethical rot of highly paid professionals proved even deeper than imagined, with a mutual-fund scandal following scandals in Corporate America and on Wall Street.
- However, many officers doubt it is enough to stop the rot.
- You thought the moral rot took hold in the sixties, didn't you?
- Italy struggled for the early years barely getting above 3 centres, but he in turn reached 9 centres in 1911 before the rot set in and elimination arrived in 1919.
- The inability of independence to stop the rot has compounded Islamic frustration.
- Possibly the rot set in a bit when Dalglish took over, and then when Ruud Gullit failed so badly to revive their fortunes.
- She weighed in on the issue more than a year ago, officially requesting that the Minister's office do something to stop the apparent rot at the company.
Synonyms
deterioration, decline
1. 2.1US Corruption on the part of officials.
  〈美〉官员腐败
  Example sentencesExamples
  He admitted yesterday he should have smelt the rot at the core of key planning decisions in the 1990s.
3British informal Nonsense; rubbish.
〈非正式〉蠢话；废话
don't talk rot
别胡说。
Example sentencesExamples
- In our school, you're not allowed to climb trees - liabilities and all that rot.
- You've just been in terrible trouble for saying that feminism is all rot and that it went off in the wrong direction.
- They say it's to incite a new nationalistic spirit or some such rot.
- The liner notes talk about his adaptation of ‘twelve-tone technique’ to tonality, but this is rot, in my opinion.
- I don't know anything about any curse, it sounds like a lot of contrived rot to me.
- The production's claim to introduce ‘logical coherence’ is a lot of rot.
- The argument is rot; whenever a publisher lets the authorities bully a journalist in their employ, it puts a chill on the entire business of reporting freely.
- In the hands of lesser songsmiths, such lines would inevitably sound like so much rot, but Gough has a peculiar charm about him that gradually disarms the jaded listener.
- Superstitions were all very well and good if you believed in that kind of thing, from fortune telling to dreams that seemed to foretell the future, but in his opinion, it was all rot.
Synonyms
nonsense, rubbish, balderdash, gibberish, claptrap, blarney, blather, blether

Origin

Old English rotian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch rotten; the noun ( Middle English) may have come via Scandinavian.

词汇	rot
释义	Definition of rot in English: rot verbrotted, rots, rotting rɒtrɑt 1(chiefly of animal or vegetable matter) decay or cause to decay by the action of bacteria and fungi; decompose. （主要指动物或蔬菜）腐烂，腐坏；腐朽，破损 no object the chalets were neglected and their woodwork was rotting away 这些牧人小屋无人管理，房屋的木结构正在腐烂。 with object caries sets in at a weak point and spreads to rot the whole tooth 龋发生在损伤点，然后扩散使整颗牙腐烂。 Example sentencesExamples More than 20 years have passed since Janzen pondered why fruits rot, seeds mold, and meat spoils. A bruised pumpkin rots quickly and might not make it through the Halloween season. It looked ironically enough, like the most expensive house in the area, even though the wooden window frames were rotting away. Many producers are letting the beans rot on the trees, since it makes little economic sense to harvest them. They also demanded the return of their recently socialized grain reserves, noting that the grain was simply rotting in its current storage conditions. If they are not cremated, put to sea, left to rot or to wild animals, they are often buried. The lore holds that elephants can get drunk by eating the fermented fruit rotting on the ground. My tomatoes are rotting on the vine before they start to ripen. Potatoes rotted in the hold and drinking water grew thick and poured like oil. After a few days, the sought after botrytis-infected grape can rot further by the action of another fungus into a gooey grey lump. The tunnels were shored up by timber and after 85 years, many of these timber supports are rotting away. The wood was rotting on one side, and no smoke came from the brick chimney. She finds a massive tree that has died and rotted from the inside. Those eggs had been lying in the belltower for years rotting away. Virtually maintenance-free, the material will not rot, warp, or crack, the manufacturer says. The stalk rots completely and the top collapses. The rubbish rots and gives off gases like methane which is potentially explosive as well as adding to global warming. The Sathe-made laminated box would remain airtight until either the wood rotted away or someone broke the seal around the lid. He didn't let his teeth rot out in prison, unlike John there. The turf was stacked and left for 18 months to rot down. Synonyms decay, decompose, disintegrate, crumble, become rotten corrode, perish go bad, go off, spoil go sour, moulder, go mouldy, taint putrefy, fester, become gangrenous, mortify rare necrose, sphacelate 1.1no object Gradually deteriorate, especially through neglect. the education system has been allowed to rot 他不明白这种教育制度是怎么会被听任退化的。 Example sentencesExamples The seed that gave birth to ideas and images has slowly begun to rot - rot in it's apathetic existence. These players are rotting on the bench. I'll take good care of the restaurant… even while you rot in prison. People rot in jail awaiting trial, making the constitutional guarantee of a speedy trial a macabre joke. Sadly, a big chunk of this money mountain is rotting away in obsolete accounts that pay a pittance in interest. If they were willing to bribe a noxious couple to help a poor girl then what lengths might the this family go to when one of their own was rotting away in jail? Guards' keys jangled as you passed the idle silence and time of your life rotting away. Income equals consumption and no goods are left to rot on the shelves. Would you rather die a quick death or rot twenty to life in prison? Without a professional individual to bring her out, that filly would rot. None is more difficult to fathom than the studio, which occasionally buys the rights to a film, then allows it to rot away on a shelf. In the meantime, it might be a good time for those who have paintings by female artists rotting away in their basements to dust them off and put them up for sale. As I type this my body slowly rots away in the dingy, and dull prison known as… detention. Next was Lia, Lia who sat rotting away in the corners of a prison cell. Soon I won't be able to pay for these lessons, then I'll be stuck rotting away at home. Four PCs are rotting away in a Franklin County evidence room, and there is little their owners can do about it. For a moment she thought she very well might be rotting in a dungeon somewhere. I'm going to rot away in some jail. Synonyms deteriorate, degenerate, decline, decay, fall into decay, go to rack and ruin, become dilapidated, go to seed, go downhill, languish, moulder informal go to pot, go to the dogs, go down the toilet 2British dated, informal with object Make fun of; tease. 〈英，非正式，旧〉开…玩笑，取笑 has anybody been rotting you? 有人在取笑你吗？ Synonyms make fun of, poke fun at, chaff, make jokes about, rag, mock, laugh at, guy, satirize, be sarcastic about noun rɒtrɑt mass noun 1The process of decaying. 腐烂，腐坏；腐朽，破损 the leaves were turning black with rot 树叶因腐烂在变黑。 Example sentencesExamples While most of the world is obsessed with sell-by dates, freshness and ripeness, the sleepy hamlet of Sauternes sits 30 miles south of Bordeaux, obsessed with rot, decay and fungus. In time the house will begin to show signs of rot, especially where it touches the ground. Recent research has shown that cement really just seals moisture in, and thus, promotes a faster rate of internal rot. The stench of rot, decay and refuse was thick in the air. Her head was spinning; the smell of rot and decay intensified, swirled in eddies around her. The aroma was similar to a death room, with the smell of decay, rot, and disinfectant. Many local museums, and indeed private collectors, store artifacts in less than ideal environments - for example, some storage places are damp and this can encourage rot and rust. Think of composting and worms immediately come to mind, not to mention such unsettling concepts as decay and rot. Boric acids or boric salts are products which traditionally used to protect buildings that perhaps have already suffered from some rot or decay. The air had a bite to it present only in the fall months; a snap of death that lacked the clean cold of December, filled instead with half-formed aromas of rot and decay. A gust of wind blasts against his face, carrying with it the scent of rot and decay and the suggestion of whispers. Ryell looked around for something, anything that might be of use, but he saw only the faded gray-blue cushions, the trim of the seats rusted over, the wood black with rot and decay. The room itself seemed to have taken on a quality of rot and rust. The products that on paper seemed to be bombproof and virtually inert turned out to be part of a system that propagates mold, mildew, and rot. He even asserts that as Noah used only gopher-wood for the ark, it was ‘probably resistant to both rot and termites’. Unlike wood, however, it is completely unaffected by damp, rot, decay, frost or insect attack. Inside the Great Mountains of the East it was dark and smelled of death and rot. The apartment block itself looms as large as any of the human characters with it's faded grandeur and slow decline into decay and rot. The air became easier to breath, losing the noxious stench of rot. Germs and rot were the last things that they needed right now. 1.1 Rotten or decayed matter. 腐烂物 Example sentencesExamples If he sees rot or physical deformities at either end, he uses the grapple saw to snip off a two-foot section. As soon as they are rooted from the ground, they will begin to slowly decay and eventually wither into a brown mess of rot. Splitting the stalk reveals internal discoloration and soft slimy rot mostly initiating at the nodes. Stalks with significant rot will crush easily. 1.2usually with modifier Any of a number of fungal or bacterial diseases that cause tissue deterioration, especially in plants. （尤指植物的）枯病 Example sentencesExamples Sclerotinia crown and stem rot is a serious disease threat when seeding alfalfa and clovers in late summer. In central Nebraska, several fields are severely damaged by anthracnose stalk rot. As with wheat streak mosaic, we've had a few calls on crown rot causing partial stand loss. There was no evidence of any crown and root rot on plants examined during the October surveys. Waiting 5 to 10 days after the fly-safe date ensures escape from fall infections of barley yellow dwarf and lessens the potential of root rot and early season foliar diseases. Puddles can create ideal conditions for diseases such as root rot, damping off and seedling blight. That's because fungal diseases like witches broom and frosty pod rot are devastating cacao crops in Central and South America. Wines made from grapes affected by noble rot tend to have a particularly deep golden colour. Such antagonism may also protect the corn plant from the E verticillioides disease, stalk rot. The tropical climates where T. cacao grows best are also perfect incubators for fungal diseases like black pod, witches' broom, and frosty pod rot. The main problem is Rhizoctonia root rot, with heat canker also being reported in some areas. Sclerotinia stalk rot, the most significant sunflower disease in the United States, appears year in, year out, regardless of weather. Seed rot and seedling diseases caused by Pythium spp. develop early in the season under cool temperatures and wet soil conditions. The next challenge is that the noble rot will not attack all grapes at the same time. Witches' broom and monilia pod rot are found only in Central and South America, and the new species of black pod is restricted to Africa. The co-op's aim is to help customers protect against Phytophthora root rot and Rhizoctonia and give plants a better chance to emerge. Charcoal rot is a fungal disease favored by hot, dry weather at this stage in crop development. Bacterial stalk rot can affect the plant at any node from the soil surface up to the ear leaves and tassels. Pod and stem blight and Phomopsis seed rot occur throughout Ohio, but are more prevalent in the southern and western regions of the state. Saturated soils also favor root rot of adult plants later in the season. Synonyms decay, decomposition corrosion mould, mouldiness, mildew, blight, canker putrefaction, putrescence wet rot, dry rot 1.3often the rot Liver rot in sheep. 羊肝蛭病 2the rotBritish A process of deterioration; a decline in standards. 〈英〉恶化；腐败；堕落 there is enough talent in the team to stop the rot 队员们有足够的才智来阻止情况继续恶化。 it was when they moved back to the family home that the rot set in 正是当他们搬回家时，情况开始变得糟糕起来。 Example sentencesExamples She weighed in on the issue more than a year ago, officially requesting that the Minister's office do something to stop the apparent rot at the company. The ethical rot of highly paid professionals proved even deeper than imagined, with a mutual-fund scandal following scandals in Corporate America and on Wall Street. You thought the moral rot took hold in the sixties, didn't you? Afraid that the city centre itself was in danger of becoming a ‘no-go’ area, Ford had come to believe that only the shooting of identified ‘ring leaders’ would stop the rot. The rot continued, and the managers were eventually replaced with bankers friendly with the corporate heads. To stop the rot, gambling was legalized in 1976 as a means of attracting new visitors and providing resources for urban renewal and associated uplift. Possibly the rot set in a bit when Dalglish took over, and then when Ruud Gullit failed so badly to revive their fortunes. In a bid to stop the rot, the company has set sweeping price cuts of between 20 and 25 per cent, according to channel reports. In a statement the CWU said that it is ‘vital we stop the rot at an early stage’ or ‘tens of thousands of jobs’ could be lost in the UK. "If we bask in false security and drop our guard, the rot spreads, corrupting the entire society. Without wanting to sound immodest, they maintain they have arrived to stop the rot in British rock. The inability of independence to stop the rot has compounded Islamic frustration. However, many officers doubt it is enough to stop the rot. We have just seen an excellent example of the rot at the heart of this Government. He first had to determine just how deep the financial rot ran. Italy struggled for the early years barely getting above 3 centres, but he in turn reached 9 centres in 1911 before the rot set in and elimination arrived in 1919. The rot set in, however, when the company realised that they had a hit on their hands, and the second version was rushed into production. However, the imminent release of the Mevira and Signum models will help stop the rot. In recent years, Camelot has been struggling to curb falling ticket sales, launching a midweek draw in February 1997 in an attempt to stop the rot. Will the vote fall to a threshold which begins to cost the party safe seats, or can the party stop the rot as it claims? Synonyms deterioration, decline corruption, canker, cancer 2.1US Corruption on the part of officials. 〈美〉官员腐败 Example sentencesExamples He admitted yesterday he should have smelt the rot at the core of key planning decisions in the 1990s. 3British informal Nonsense; rubbish. 〈非正式〉蠢话；废话 don't talk rot 别胡说。 as exclamation ‘Rot!’ she said with vehemence Example sentencesExamples The argument is rot; whenever a publisher lets the authorities bully a journalist in their employ, it puts a chill on the entire business of reporting freely. In the hands of lesser songsmiths, such lines would inevitably sound like so much rot, but Gough has a peculiar charm about him that gradually disarms the jaded listener. The liner notes talk about his adaptation of ‘twelve-tone technique’ to tonality, but this is rot, in my opinion. In our school, you're not allowed to climb trees - liabilities and all that rot. Superstitions were all very well and good if you believed in that kind of thing, from fortune telling to dreams that seemed to foretell the future, but in his opinion, it was all rot. They say it's to incite a new nationalistic spirit or some such rot. I don't know anything about any curse, it sounds like a lot of contrived rot to me. The production's claim to introduce ‘logical coherence’ is a lot of rot. You've just been in terrible trouble for saying that feminism is all rot and that it went off in the wrong direction. Synonyms nonsense, rubbish, balderdash, gibberish, claptrap, blarney, blather, blether informal hogwash, baloney, tripe, drivel, bilge, bosh, bull, bunk, hot air, eyewash, piffle, poppycock, phooey, hooey, malarkey, twaddle, guff, dribble British informal cobblers, codswallop, cock, stuff and nonsense, tosh Scottish &amp Northern English informal havers North American informal garbage, flapdoodle, blathers, wack, bushwa, applesauce informal, dated bunkum, tommyrot, cod, gammon North American vulgar slang crapola Origin Old English rotian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch rotten; the noun (Middle English) may have come via Scandinavian. Rhymes allot, begot, Bernadotte, blot, bot, capot, clot, cocotte, cot, culotte, dot, forgot, garrotte (US garrote), gavotte, got, grot, hot, jot, knot, lot, Mayotte, motte, not, Ott, outshot, plot, pot, sans-culotte, Scot, Scott, shallot, shot, slot, snot, sot, spot, squat, stot, swat, swot, tot, trot, undershot, Wat, Watt, what, wot, yacht Definition of rot in US English: rot verbrätrɑt 1(chiefly of animal or vegetable matter) decay or cause to decay by the action of bacteria and fungi; decompose. （主要指动物或蔬菜）腐烂，腐坏；腐朽，破损 no object the chalets were neglected and their woodwork was rotting away 这些牧人小屋无人管理，房屋的木结构正在腐烂。 with object caries sets in at a weak point and spreads to rot the whole tooth 龋发生在损伤点，然后扩散使整颗牙腐烂。 Example sentencesExamples After a few days, the sought after botrytis-infected grape can rot further by the action of another fungus into a gooey grey lump. A bruised pumpkin rots quickly and might not make it through the Halloween season. The Sathe-made laminated box would remain airtight until either the wood rotted away or someone broke the seal around the lid. They also demanded the return of their recently socialized grain reserves, noting that the grain was simply rotting in its current storage conditions. It looked ironically enough, like the most expensive house in the area, even though the wooden window frames were rotting away. The tunnels were shored up by timber and after 85 years, many of these timber supports are rotting away. She finds a massive tree that has died and rotted from the inside. The lore holds that elephants can get drunk by eating the fermented fruit rotting on the ground. Virtually maintenance-free, the material will not rot, warp, or crack, the manufacturer says. More than 20 years have passed since Janzen pondered why fruits rot, seeds mold, and meat spoils. My tomatoes are rotting on the vine before they start to ripen. Potatoes rotted in the hold and drinking water grew thick and poured like oil. The rubbish rots and gives off gases like methane which is potentially explosive as well as adding to global warming. Many producers are letting the beans rot on the trees, since it makes little economic sense to harvest them. The stalk rots completely and the top collapses. He didn't let his teeth rot out in prison, unlike John there. The turf was stacked and left for 18 months to rot down. Those eggs had been lying in the belltower for years rotting away. If they are not cremated, put to sea, left to rot or to wild animals, they are often buried. The wood was rotting on one side, and no smoke came from the brick chimney. Synonyms decay, decompose, disintegrate, crumble, become rotten go bad, go off, spoil 1.1 Gradually deteriorate through lack of attention or opportunity. 〈喻〉逐渐恶化；退化 he cannot understand the way the education system has been allowed to rot 他不明白这种教育制度是怎么会被听任退化的。 Example sentencesExamples I'll take good care of the restaurant… even while you rot in prison. People rot in jail awaiting trial, making the constitutional guarantee of a speedy trial a macabre joke. If they were willing to bribe a noxious couple to help a poor girl then what lengths might the this family go to when one of their own was rotting away in jail? Without a professional individual to bring her out, that filly would rot. Next was Lia, Lia who sat rotting away in the corners of a prison cell. The seed that gave birth to ideas and images has slowly begun to rot - rot in it's apathetic existence. I'm going to rot away in some jail. For a moment she thought she very well might be rotting in a dungeon somewhere. Guards' keys jangled as you passed the idle silence and time of your life rotting away. Soon I won't be able to pay for these lessons, then I'll be stuck rotting away at home. Four PCs are rotting away in a Franklin County evidence room, and there is little their owners can do about it. As I type this my body slowly rots away in the dingy, and dull prison known as… detention. None is more difficult to fathom than the studio, which occasionally buys the rights to a film, then allows it to rot away on a shelf. Would you rather die a quick death or rot twenty to life in prison? In the meantime, it might be a good time for those who have paintings by female artists rotting away in their basements to dust them off and put them up for sale. Sadly, a big chunk of this money mountain is rotting away in obsolete accounts that pay a pittance in interest. Income equals consumption and no goods are left to rot on the shelves. These players are rotting on the bench. Synonyms deteriorate, degenerate, decline, decay, fall into decay, go to rack and ruin, become dilapidated, go to seed, go downhill, languish, moulder nounrätrɑt 1The process of decaying. 腐烂，腐坏；腐朽，破损 the leaves were turning black with rot 树叶因腐烂在变黑。 Example sentencesExamples The apartment block itself looms as large as any of the human characters with it's faded grandeur and slow decline into decay and rot. Inside the Great Mountains of the East it was dark and smelled of death and rot. The air had a bite to it present only in the fall months; a snap of death that lacked the clean cold of December, filled instead with half-formed aromas of rot and decay. Recent research has shown that cement really just seals moisture in, and thus, promotes a faster rate of internal rot. The room itself seemed to have taken on a quality of rot and rust. Boric acids or boric salts are products which traditionally used to protect buildings that perhaps have already suffered from some rot or decay. He even asserts that as Noah used only gopher-wood for the ark, it was ‘probably resistant to both rot and termites’. Think of composting and worms immediately come to mind, not to mention such unsettling concepts as decay and rot. The aroma was similar to a death room, with the smell of decay, rot, and disinfectant. The stench of rot, decay and refuse was thick in the air. The products that on paper seemed to be bombproof and virtually inert turned out to be part of a system that propagates mold, mildew, and rot. A gust of wind blasts against his face, carrying with it the scent of rot and decay and the suggestion of whispers. Her head was spinning; the smell of rot and decay intensified, swirled in eddies around her. Unlike wood, however, it is completely unaffected by damp, rot, decay, frost or insect attack. Germs and rot were the last things that they needed right now. While most of the world is obsessed with sell-by dates, freshness and ripeness, the sleepy hamlet of Sauternes sits 30 miles south of Bordeaux, obsessed with rot, decay and fungus. The air became easier to breath, losing the noxious stench of rot. Many local museums, and indeed private collectors, store artifacts in less than ideal environments - for example, some storage places are damp and this can encourage rot and rust. In time the house will begin to show signs of rot, especially where it touches the ground. Ryell looked around for something, anything that might be of use, but he saw only the faded gray-blue cushions, the trim of the seats rusted over, the wood black with rot and decay. 1.1 Rotten or decayed matter. 腐烂物 she was busy cutting the rot from the potatoes Example sentencesExamples If he sees rot or physical deformities at either end, he uses the grapple saw to snip off a two-foot section. Stalks with significant rot will crush easily. Splitting the stalk reveals internal discoloration and soft slimy rot mostly initiating at the nodes. As soon as they are rooted from the ground, they will begin to slowly decay and eventually wither into a brown mess of rot. 1.2usually with modifier Any of a number of fungal or bacterial diseases that cause tissue deterioration, especially in plants. （尤指植物的）枯病 Example sentencesExamples The main problem is Rhizoctonia root rot, with heat canker also being reported in some areas. Pod and stem blight and Phomopsis seed rot occur throughout Ohio, but are more prevalent in the southern and western regions of the state. Charcoal rot is a fungal disease favored by hot, dry weather at this stage in crop development. That's because fungal diseases like witches broom and frosty pod rot are devastating cacao crops in Central and South America. The co-op's aim is to help customers protect against Phytophthora root rot and Rhizoctonia and give plants a better chance to emerge. There was no evidence of any crown and root rot on plants examined during the October surveys. Saturated soils also favor root rot of adult plants later in the season. Witches' broom and monilia pod rot are found only in Central and South America, and the new species of black pod is restricted to Africa. Puddles can create ideal conditions for diseases such as root rot, damping off and seedling blight. Wines made from grapes affected by noble rot tend to have a particularly deep golden colour. Such antagonism may also protect the corn plant from the E verticillioides disease, stalk rot. Seed rot and seedling diseases caused by Pythium spp. develop early in the season under cool temperatures and wet soil conditions. The tropical climates where T. cacao grows best are also perfect incubators for fungal diseases like black pod, witches' broom, and frosty pod rot. As with wheat streak mosaic, we've had a few calls on crown rot causing partial stand loss. Bacterial stalk rot can affect the plant at any node from the soil surface up to the ear leaves and tassels. Waiting 5 to 10 days after the fly-safe date ensures escape from fall infections of barley yellow dwarf and lessens the potential of root rot and early season foliar diseases. In central Nebraska, several fields are severely damaged by anthracnose stalk rot. Sclerotinia stalk rot, the most significant sunflower disease in the United States, appears year in, year out, regardless of weather. Sclerotinia crown and stem rot is a serious disease threat when seeding alfalfa and clovers in late summer. The next challenge is that the noble rot will not attack all grapes at the same time. Synonyms decay, decomposition 2the rotBritish A process of deterioration; a decline in standards. 〈英〉恶化；腐败；堕落 there is enough talent in the team to stop the rot 队员们有足够的才智来阻止情况继续恶化。 it was when they moved back to the family home that the rot set in 正是当他们搬回家时，情况开始变得糟糕起来。 Example sentencesExamples In recent years, Camelot has been struggling to curb falling ticket sales, launching a midweek draw in February 1997 in an attempt to stop the rot. Afraid that the city centre itself was in danger of becoming a ‘no-go’ area, Ford had come to believe that only the shooting of identified ‘ring leaders’ would stop the rot. The rot set in, however, when the company realised that they had a hit on their hands, and the second version was rushed into production. Will the vote fall to a threshold which begins to cost the party safe seats, or can the party stop the rot as it claims? He first had to determine just how deep the financial rot ran. "If we bask in false security and drop our guard, the rot spreads, corrupting the entire society. However, the imminent release of the Mevira and Signum models will help stop the rot. Without wanting to sound immodest, they maintain they have arrived to stop the rot in British rock. To stop the rot, gambling was legalized in 1976 as a means of attracting new visitors and providing resources for urban renewal and associated uplift. In a statement the CWU said that it is ‘vital we stop the rot at an early stage’ or ‘tens of thousands of jobs’ could be lost in the UK. We have just seen an excellent example of the rot at the heart of this Government. In a bid to stop the rot, the company has set sweeping price cuts of between 20 and 25 per cent, according to channel reports. The rot continued, and the managers were eventually replaced with bankers friendly with the corporate heads. The ethical rot of highly paid professionals proved even deeper than imagined, with a mutual-fund scandal following scandals in Corporate America and on Wall Street. However, many officers doubt it is enough to stop the rot. You thought the moral rot took hold in the sixties, didn't you? Italy struggled for the early years barely getting above 3 centres, but he in turn reached 9 centres in 1911 before the rot set in and elimination arrived in 1919. The inability of independence to stop the rot has compounded Islamic frustration. Possibly the rot set in a bit when Dalglish took over, and then when Ruud Gullit failed so badly to revive their fortunes. She weighed in on the issue more than a year ago, officially requesting that the Minister's office do something to stop the apparent rot at the company. Synonyms deterioration, decline 2.1US Corruption on the part of officials. 〈美〉官员腐败 Example sentencesExamples He admitted yesterday he should have smelt the rot at the core of key planning decisions in the 1990s. 3British informal Nonsense; rubbish. 〈非正式〉蠢话；废话 don't talk rot 别胡说。 Example sentencesExamples In our school, you're not allowed to climb trees - liabilities and all that rot. You've just been in terrible trouble for saying that feminism is all rot and that it went off in the wrong direction. They say it's to incite a new nationalistic spirit or some such rot. The liner notes talk about his adaptation of ‘twelve-tone technique’ to tonality, but this is rot, in my opinion. I don't know anything about any curse, it sounds like a lot of contrived rot to me. The production's claim to introduce ‘logical coherence’ is a lot of rot. The argument is rot; whenever a publisher lets the authorities bully a journalist in their employ, it puts a chill on the entire business of reporting freely. In the hands of lesser songsmiths, such lines would inevitably sound like so much rot, but Gough has a peculiar charm about him that gradually disarms the jaded listener. Superstitions were all very well and good if you believed in that kind of thing, from fortune telling to dreams that seemed to foretell the future, but in his opinion, it was all rot. Synonyms nonsense, rubbish, balderdash, gibberish, claptrap, blarney, blather, blether Origin Old English rotian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch rotten; the noun ( Middle English) may have come via Scandinavian.
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