Rot vs Injure - What's the difference?

Rot is a related term of injure.

is meat roasted on a spit.

to wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.

(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

* (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) English intransitive verbs ----

(injury)

(injur)

To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.

To damage or impair.

To do injustice to.

* harm * damage * hurt * disfigure * wound * mar * impair

* praise * help * preserve * benefit