Demolish vs Rot - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between demolish and rot

is that demolish is to destroy; to destruct while rot is to suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.

As a noun rot is

the process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.

demolish

English

Verb

(es)

To destroy; to destruct.

They demolished the old house and put up four townhouses.

(figuratively) To utterly defeat.

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rot

English

Verb

(rott)

To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.

* Alexander Pope

Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, / To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot .

To decline in function or utility.

To deteriorate in any way.

I hope they all rot in prison for what they've done.

* Macaulay

Four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons.

* Thackeray

Rot , poor bachelor, in your club.

To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.

to rot vegetable fiber

To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.

Derived terms

* potter's rot

Noun

(en noun)

The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.

Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.

* Milton

His cattle must of rot and murrain die.

Verbal nonsense.

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