Noun
unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)

Noun
(biology) decaying caused by bacterial or fungal action

Noun
decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor

Verb
waste away; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"

Verb
break down; "The bodies decomposed in the heat"

v. i.
To undergo a process common to organic substances by which they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through certain chemical changes, giving off usually in some stages of the process more or less offensive odors; to become decomposed by a natural process; to putrefy; to decay.

v. i.
Figuratively: To perish slowly; to decay; to die; to become corrupt.

v. t.
To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes; as, to rot vegetable fiber.

v. t.
To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.

n.
Process of rotting; decay; putrefaction.

n.
A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi. See Bitter rot, Black rot, etc., below.

n.
A fatal distemper which attacks sheep and sometimes other animals. It is due to the presence of a parasitic worm in the liver or gall bladder. See 1st Fluke, 2.

Rot

Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.

Four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons.

Rot, poor bachelor, in your club.

Rot

Rot

His cattle must of rot and murrain die.

To undergo a process common to organic substances by which they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through certain chemical changes, giving off usually in some stages of the process more or less offensive odors; to become decomposed by a natural process; to putrefy; to decay.

To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes; as, to rot vegetable fiber.

Process of rotting; decay; putrefaction.