Indefatigable vs Rot - What's the difference?
indefatigable | rot |
Extremely persistent and untiring.
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* 1898 , :
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 an adjective indefatigable
is extremely persistent and untiring.As a noun rot is
meat roasted on a spit.indefatigable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- but he was at the same time an excellent scholar, and most indefatigable in teaching the two lads.
- All night long the Martians were hammering and stirring, sleepless, indefatigable , at work upon the machines they were making ready, and ever and again a puff of greenish-white smoke whirled up to the starlit sky.
Synonyms
* inexhaustible, tireless, unflagging, unsinkable, untiring, unwearying,Antonyms
* defatigable (much less common)Derived terms
* indefatigably * indefatigability * indefatigablenessrot
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.