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rot

 
 
/rɒt/ verb [I, T] (present participle rotting, past tense and past participle rotted)

Translation

If vegetable or animal substances rot, they decay, and if something rots them, it makes them decay.
çürümek, kokmak, çürütmek
The fruit had been left to rot on the trees. Sugar rots your teeth. the smell of rotting fish458
(Definition of rot verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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