Malignancy vs Rot - What's the difference?
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The state of being malignant or diseased.
A malignant cancer; specifically, any neoplasm that is invasive or otherwise not benign.
That which is malign; evil, depravity, malevolence.
* Shakespeare
* {{quote-book, year=1902, author=Arthur Conan Doyle, title=The Hound of the Baskervilles
, passage=A cold wind swept down from it and set us shivering. Somewhere there, on that desolate plain, was lurking this fiendish man, hiding in a burrow like a wild beast, his heart full of malignancy against the whole race which had cast him out.}}
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 malignancy and rot
is that malignancy is the state of being malignant or diseased 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.malignancy
English
Noun
(malignancies)- The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemper yours.
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Antonyms
* benignancyrot
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.