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Rot vs Rubble - What's the difference?

rot | rubble |

As nouns the difference between rot and rubble

is that rot is meat roasted on a spit while rubble is the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.

rot

English

Verb

(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.
  • Derived terms

    * potter's rot

    Noun

    (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.
  • Synonyms

    * (nonsense) See also

    Anagrams

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

    rubble

    English

    Noun

  • The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.
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  • (geology) A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock.
  • (Lyell)
  • (UK, dialect, in the plural) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.
  • (Simmonds)

    Derived terms

    * reduce to rubble * rubblestone * rubblework

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