Crossword-Solution: ROT 3 letters, 414 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 3

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Rot	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.
Rot	v. i.	Figuratively: To perish slowly; to decay; to die; to become corrupt.
Rot	v. t.	To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes; as, to rot vegetable fiber.
Rot	v. t.	To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
Rot	n.	Process of rotting; decay; putrefaction.
Rot	n.	A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi. See Bitter rot, Black rot, etc., below.
Rot	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.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
ROT	anagram	ORT, OTR, RTO, TOR, TRO

We have 414 clues for the answer “ROT”

Clue	Answers
Act like a zombie	1 answer
Apt letters missing from "dete_i_ra_e"	1 answer
Arborist's anathema	1 answer
Arborist's woe	1 answer
Beans or baloney	1 answer
Become compost, perhaps	1 answer
Become decayed	1 answer
Become degenerate	1 answer
Become inedible, in a way	1 answer
Become inedible, perhaps	1 answer
Become maggot-infested, perhaps	1 answer
Become moldy	1 answer
Become morally corrupt	1 answer
Become mulch	1 answer
Become mushy, perhaps	1 answer
Become putrid	1 answer
Become rancid, in a way	1 answer
Become unsafe to eat	1 answer
Become yucky, perhaps	1 answer
Bilge water	1 answer
Biodegrade	1 answer
Biodegrade, say	1 answer
Bosh or tosh	1 answer
BreakÂ down to dust	1 answer
Cause of malodor	1 answer
Cause of malodor, perhaps	1 answer
Cause of malodors	1 answer
Corruption from deep inside	1 answer
Corruption, metaphorically	1 answer
Crumble at last.	1 answer
Decay away	1 answer
Decay, as food or wood	1 answer
Decayo	1 answer
Decline in integrity	1 answer
Degenerate badly	1 answer
DevilDriver "Head on to Heartache (Let Them ___)"	1 answer
Dry ___ (plant disease)	1 answer
Dry or tommy	1 answer
Fall Apart Come	1 answer
Fall apart, perhaps	1 answer
Fall into decay	1 answer
Floorboard problem	1 answer
Form compost	1 answer
Fruit concern	1 answer
Fruit problem	1 answer
Get decayed	1 answer
Get moldy, perhaps	1 answer
Get rancid	1 answer
Get soft and mushy	1 answer
Get sour	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ATEER

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with ROT (5)

Copy-protected software which is unusable because of some bit-rot or bug that has confused the anti-piracy check.

The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

Here, too, is brought, so the fable runs, all the waste stuff of the nation—everything that is subject to rot, and that can add to the foul stench that assails our nostrils.

The Warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

All the “rot” they contained about ventilation, and how to go to bed, and how to get up, and what to eat, and what to drink, and how much exercise to take, and what frame of mind to keep one’s self in, and what sort of clothing to wear, was all gospel to her, and she never observed that her health-journals of the current month customarily upset everything they had recommended the month before.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

Them’s the very words I said; they all heard me; and the country may rot for all me—I’ll never vote agin as long as I live.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

She had dwelt too much alone,—too long in the Pyncheon House,—until her very brain was impregnated with the dry-rot of its timbers.

The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993

Quotes with ROT (3)

I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you.

Dorothy Parker The Portable Dorothy Parker

But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.

Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray

Well, I’m not kissing the mundane," said Jace. "I’d rather stay down here and rot.""Forever?" said Simon. "Forever’s an awfully long time." Jace raised his eyebrows. "I knew it," he said. "You want to kiss me, don’t you?

Cassandra Clare City of Ashes

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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Custom, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, Slate, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 1,083 times in crossword archives (1947–2025).