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Rit vs. Rot — What's the Difference?

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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