Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to rot
Participle: rotted
Gerund: rotting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | rot |
| you | rot |
| he;she;it | rots |
| we | rot |
| you | rot |
| they | rot |
Perfect
| I | have rotted |
| you | have rotted |
| he;she;it | has rotted |
| we | have rotted |
| you | have rotted |
| they | have rotted |
Past
| I | rotted |
| you | rotted |
| he;she;it | rotted |
| we | rotted |
| you | rotted |
| they | rotted |
Pluperfect
| I | had rotted |
| you | had rotted |
| he;she;it | had rotted |
| we | had rotted |
| you | had rotted |
| they | had rotted |
Future
| I | will rot |
| you | will rot |
| he;she;it | will rot |
| we | will rot |
| you | will rot |
| they | will rot |
Future Perfect
| I | will have rotted |
| you | will have rotted |
| he;she;it | will have rotted |
| we | will have rotted |
| you | will have rotted |
| they | will have rotted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | rot |
| you | rot |
| he;she;it | rot |
| we | rot |
| you | rot |
| they | rot |
Perfect
| I | have rotted |
| you | have rotted |
| he;she;it | have rotted |
| we | have rotted |
| you | have rotted |
| they | have rotted |
Imperfect
| I | rotted |
| you | rotted |
| he;she;it | rotted |
| we | rotted |
| you | rotted |
| they | rotted |
Pluperfect
| I | had rotted |
| you | had rotted |
| he;she;it | had rotted |
| we | had rotted |
| you | had rotted |
| they | had rotted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would rot |
| you | would rot |
| he;she;it | would rot |
| we | would rot |
| you | would rot |
| they | would rot |
Perfect
| I | would have rotted |
| you | would have rotted |
| he;she;it | would have rotted |
| we | would have rotted |
| you | would have rotted |
| they | would have rotted |
Imperative
| you | rot |
| we | Let's rot |
| you | rot |
Verbs conjugated like 'rot'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'rot'
bot,
dot,
frot,
got,
hot,
jot,
lot,
mot,
pot,
rat,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E.
rotian "to decay," from P.Gmc.
*rutjan (cf. O.S.
roton, O.N.
rotna, O.Fris.
rotia, M.Du.
roten, O.H.G.
rozzen "to rot," Ger.
rößen "to steep flax"), from stem
*rut-. The noun (c.1300) probably is of Scand. origin (cf. Icel.
rot, Swed.
röta, Dan.
røde "decay, putrefaction"), and is related to the verb. Slang noun sense of "rubbish, trash" is from 1848.
Rotgut "unwholesome liquor" is from 1633;
rotter "one who is objectionable on moral grounds" is 1894 slang.
2. 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”). See: Middle English '
roten', Middle English '
roten', Old English '
rotian', Proto-Germanic '
*rutāną'.
Sample Sentences
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[...] ague, and death; vaunted in England as a mine of Golden Hope, and speculated in, on the faith of monstrous representations, to many people 's ruin. A dismal swamp, on which the half-built houses rot away: cleared here and there for the space of a few yards; and teeming, then, with rank unwholesome vegetation, in whose baleful shade the wretched wanderers who are tempted hither, droop, and die, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] hung with long wreaths of funeral black moss, while ever and anon the loathsome form of the mocassin snake might be seen sliding among broken stumps and shattered branches that lay here and there, rotting in the water.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)