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We have spotted ROT (3 Letters) a total of 368 times in our database. Below you may see the clues associated with ROT and also when and where was it last seen:
Definition
| • | 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. |
| • | Figuratively: To perish slowly; to decay; to die; to become corrupt. |
| • | To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes; as, to rot vegetable fiber. |
| • | To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret. |
| • | Process of rotting; decay; putrefaction. |
| • | A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi. See Bitter rot, Black rot, etc., below. |
| • | A fatal distemper which attacks sheep and sometimes other animals. It is due to the presence of a parasitic worm in the liver or gall bladder. See 1st Fluke, 2. |
Referring crossword puzzle clues
- Turn from food to compost
- Go bad, as food
- Harder to come by
- Turn for the worse
- Spanish-speaking neighborhood
- Become spoiled
- What old apples do
- Crumble
- Puerto ___
- Decay processes
- Hooey
- Turn brown maybe
- Nothing worth listening to
- Turn inedible
- Balderdash
- Break down in a way
- Apt letters missing from dete_i_ra_e
- Corruption metaphorically
- Wood deck concern
- Turn bad
- Wither away
- Malarkey
- Codswallop
- Become inedible
- Gibberish
- Biodegrade
- Nothing but trash
- Hogwash
- Turn to mush
- Rubbish
- Utter nonsense
- Get mushy in the fridge say
- Go bad
- Go green maybe?
- Deteriorate
- Decay
- Nonsense
- Go green perhaps?
- Decompose
- Spoil
Usage among publishers:
- USA Today: Nov 16, 2024
- Newsday: Oct 21, 2024
- New York Times: Oct 14, 2024
- New York Times: Sep 11, 2024
- New York Times: Aug 28, 2024
- USA Today: Aug 9, 2024
- USA Today: Jul 27, 2024
- Wall Street Journal: Jul 20, 2024
- New York Times: Jul 9, 2024
- Wall Street Journal: May 31, 2024
- Newsday: May 21, 2024
- LA Times: Apr 23, 2024
- Newsday: Feb 24, 2024
- USA Today: Jan 5, 2024
- Wall Street Journal: Dec 20, 2023
- New York Times: Dec 9, 2023
- Universal: Nov 16, 2023
- LA Times: Nov 12, 2023
- Universal: Nov 10, 2023
- Thomas Joseph: Nov 7, 2023
- LA Times: Nov 6, 2023
- LA Times: Jun 1, 2023
- Wall Street Journal: May 2, 2023
- USA Today: Apr 30, 2023
- LA Times: Apr 29, 2023
- LA Times: Apr 18, 2023
- Newsday: Apr 8, 2023
- Eugene Sheffer: Apr 3, 2023
- Wall Street Journal: Mar 29, 2023
- LA Times: Mar 11, 2023
- USA Today: Jan 5, 2023