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Rot vs Vrot - What's the difference?

rot | vrot |

As a noun rot

is meat roasted on a spit.

As an adjective vrot is

(south africa) rotten.

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

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    vrot

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (South Africa) rotten
  • * 1979 , South African journal of science (volumes 75-76, page 399)
    • The mycologist Raper found and isolated one of the very best strains of penicillin-producing fungus happily growing on a vrot spanspek at his local greengrocer
  • * 1994 , Ella Mary Macphail, Ugogo and other stories from South Africa (page 33)
    • The leader who was a bit older than the others - his two front teeth were missing - kicked her legs when she caught him and he said she was a vrot banana also because she was a girl also.
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