Rit vs. Rot — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Rit and Rot
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Rit
Rit is a brand of dye first sold in 1916. As of 2013, it is owned by Phoenix Brands.Rit is a commercial dye used for household purposes, including dyeing clothes and wood.
Rot
(chiefly of animal or vegetable matter) decay or cause to decay by the action of bacteria and fungi; decompose
The chalets were neglected and their woodwork was rotting away
Caries sets in at a weak point and spreads to rot the whole tooth
Rit
A scratch, a score or a groove.
Rot
Make fun of; tease
Has anybody been rotting you?
Rit
To scratch or score.
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Rot
The process of decaying
The leaves were turning black with rot
Rit
To tear, rip, rend.
Rot
A process of deterioration; a decline in standards
There is enough talent in the team to stop the rot
It was when they moved back to the family home that the rot set in
Rit
To slit.
Rot
Nonsense; rubbish
Don't talk rot
‘Rot!’ she said with vehemence
Rit
Abbreviation of ritardando
Rot
To undergo decomposition, especially organic decomposition; decay.
Rot
To become damaged, weakened, or useless because of decay
The beams had rotted away.
Rot
To disappear or fall by decaying
One could see the blackened areas where the branches had rotted off.
Rot
To deteriorate through neglect or inactivity; languish or decline
"He upset Alice by calling Washington ... a sink of boredom and saying he was rotting there" (John Dos Passos).
Rot
To decay morally; become degenerate.
Rot
To cause to decompose or decay.
Rot
The process of rotting or the condition of being rotten
The rot spread quickly, rendering the bridge unsafe even for pedestrians.
Rot
Foot rot.
Rot
Any of several plant diseases characterized by the breakdown of tissue and caused by various bacteria, fungi, or oomycetes.
Rot
Pointless talk; nonsense
She always talks such rot.
Rot
(Archaic) Any of various diseases causing the decay of flesh.
Rot
(intransitive) To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
The apple left in the cupboard all that time had started to rot.
Rot
(intransitive) To decline in function or utility.
Your brain will rot if you spend so much time on the computer, Tony!
Rot
(ambitransitive) To (cause to) deteriorate in any way, as in morals; to corrupt.
Rot
(transitive) To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.
To rot vegetable fiber
Rot
To spend a long period of time (in an unpleasant place).
To rot in prison
To rot in Hell
Rot
(transitive) To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
Rot
To talk nonsense.
Rot
The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
Rot
Decaying matter.
Rot
Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
Rot
(uncountable) Verbal nonsense.
Rot
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.
Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot,To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
Rot
Figuratively: To perish slowly; to decay; to die; to become corrupt.
Four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons.
Rot, poor bachelor, in your club.
Rot
To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes; as, to rot vegetable fiber.
Rot
To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
Rot
Process of rotting; decay; putrefaction.
Rot
A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi. See Bitter rot, Black rot, etc., below.
Rot
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.
His cattle must of rot and murrain die.
Rot
Decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
Rot
(biology) decaying caused by bacterial or fungal action
Rot
Unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)
Rot
Break down;
The bodies decomposed in the heat
Rot
Waste away;
Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world
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