What is the difference between maceration and rot?

As nouns the difference between maceration and rot

is that maceration is the act or process of macerating while rot is the process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.

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

(en noun)

The act or process of macerating.

* The Armored Dinosaurs edited by Kenneth Carpenter 2001 google print ref

... proposed that the small size of the teeth ... implied that most of the maceration of the food occurred after swallowing.

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(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.

* potter's rot

(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.

* (nonsense) See also

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