Shrivel vs Rot - What's the difference?
shrivel | rot | Related terms |
To collapse inward; to crumble.
To become wrinkled.
To draw into wrinkles.
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.
In intransitive terms the difference between shrivel and rot
is that shrivel is to become wrinkled while rot is to deteriorate in any way.In transitive terms the difference between shrivel and rot
is that shrivel is to draw into wrinkles while rot is to expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.As a noun rot is
the process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.shrivel
English
Verb
(shrivell) (UK ) (en-verb) (US )- I saw him shrivel on the ground in fear.
- His fingers were shriveled from being in the bath for too long.
- The hot sun shrivelled the leaves.
rot
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.