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Rottest vs Wottest - What's the difference?

rottest | wottest |

In archaic|lang=en terms the difference between rottest and wottest

is that rottest is (archaic) (rot) while wottest is (archaic).

As verbs the difference between rottest and wottest

is that rottest is (archaic) (rot) while wottest is (archaic).

rottest

English

Verb

(head)
  • (archaic) (rot)

  • 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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