Definitions
become physically weaker
Word origin
Inherited from Middle English roten, rotten, from Old English rotian (“to rot, become corrupted, ulcerate, putrefy”), from Proto-West Germanic *rotēn, from Proto-Germanic *rutāną (“to rot”).
Used in a sentence
“The apple left in the cupboard all that time had started to rot.”
“Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, / To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.”
“Your brain will rot if you spend so much time on the computer, Tony!”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer4 curated clues
01“Break down naturally”3 letters
02“Go bad, as fruit”3 letters
03“Spoil over time”3 letters
04“Decay”3 letters
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