Carrion vs Rot - What's the difference?
carrion | rot |
Dead flesh; carcasses.
* Spenser
* 1922, , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 119
(obsolete, derogatory) A contemptible or worthless person.
* Shakespeare
To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
* Alexander Pope
To decline in function or utility.
To deteriorate in any way.
* Macaulay
* Thackeray
To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.
To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
* Milton
Verbal nonsense.
As nouns the difference between carrion and rot
is that carrion is dead flesh; carcasses while rot is the process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.As a verb rot is
to suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.carrion
English
Noun
(en-noun)- Vultures feed on carrion .
- They did eat the dead carrions .
- Perhaps the Purple Emperor is feasting, as Morris says, upon a mass of putrid carrion at the base of an oak tree.
- Old feeble carrions .
rot
English
Verb
(rott)- Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, / To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot .
- I hope they all rot in prison for what they've done.
- Four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons.
- Rot , poor bachelor, in your club.
- to rot vegetable fiber
Derived terms
* potter's rotNoun
(en noun)- His cattle must of rot and murrain die.