Rot vs Disintegrate - What's the difference?
rot | disintegrate | Related terms |
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.
To undo the integrity of, break into parts.
* Kirwan
To fall apart, break up into parts.
Rot is a related term of disintegrate.
As a noun rot
is meat roasted on a spit.As a verb disintegrate is
to undo the integrity of, break into parts.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.
Synonyms
* (nonsense) See alsoAnagrams
* (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) English intransitive verbs ----disintegrate
English
Verb
(disintegrat)- Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years.