rot
/rɒt/ verb [I, T] (present participle rotting, past tense and past participle rotted)Definition
› If vegetable or animal substances rot, they decay, and if something rots them, it makes them decay: The fruit had been left to rot on the trees. Sugar rots your teeth. the smell of rotting fish
(Definition of rot verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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