Rot Synonyms and Antonyms

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To become or cause to become rotten or unsound
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. decay
  2. decompose
  3. spoil
  4. disintegrate
  5. deteriorate
  6. molder
  7. putrefy
  8. break down
  9. bosh
  10. breakdown
  11. bull
  12. chaff
  13. contaminate
  14. corrode
  15. corrupt
  16. waste
  17. decline
  18. degenerate
  19. fester
  20. maturate
  21. nonsense
  22. perish
  23. taint
  24. poppycock
  25. pustulate
  26. turn
  27. putresce
  28. rubbish
  29. suppurate
  30. trash
  31. twaddle
  32. warp
  33. moulder
Antonyms:
  1. imputrescence
  2. incorruption
  3. preservation
  4. soundness
  5. building
  6. growth
  7. development
  8. truth
  9. build
  10. flourish
  11. grow
To undergo decomposition, especially organic decomposition; decay.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. decay
Synonyms:
(Interjection)
  1. humbug
  2. nonsense
  3. tush
  4. twaddle
  5. bosh
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. abominable
  2. carious
  3. decomposed
  4. dying
  5. festering
  6. fetid
  7. high
  8. necrotic
  9. off
  10. perished
  11. purulent
  12. pustulating
  13. putrefactive
  14. putrefied
  15. putrescent
  16. rancid
  17. rank
  18. rotten
  19. saprogenic
  20. suppurating
  21. termitic
  22. ulcerous

Words Related to Rot

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Rot Sentence Examples

  • Memon stopped close enough for her to smell the rot on his breath.

  • Ice has its grain as well as wood, and when a cake begins to rot or "comb," that is, assume the appearance of honeycomb, whatever may be its position, the air cells are at right angles with what was the water surface.

  • The VP you can let rot, he added.

  • An older man with dementia left to rot and finally die in an old folks' home.

  • It is no longer legal for people to be secretly arrested, not charged, and left to rot in jail.

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