Rot vs Ryot - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between rot and ryot

is that rot is the process of becoming rotten; putrefaction while ryot is a farmer or tiller of the soil.

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

(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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(en noun)

A farmer or tiller of the soil.

The word does not find a place in several modern dictionaries, but is still used by general media, especially on the Indian sub-continent.

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