rots

present tense third-person singular of rot

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of rots If Britain continues down the path of criminalizing thought and prayer, the alliance risks being reduced to polite diplomacy while its moral core rots away. Lois McLatchie Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rots
Verb
  • Breaking them down to save for a later date isn’t enough, as bugs will still nestle their way in even as the cardboard deteriorates.
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Advertisement Our hygiene deteriorates.
    Eli Sharabi, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • When leaves fall to the ground, the carbon stays in these leaves, breaks down, and decomposes and releases nutrients back into the soil that plants can take in.
    Saleen Martin, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The calculation, called the Fourier transform, decomposes any function into its parts.
    Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • At times, the house would break apart onstage, with the top half lifted in the air, only for YoungBoy to start aggressively rapping, standing supreme while the house crumbles around him.
    Jayson Buford, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The film reportedly follows Streep’s Miranda as the magazine industry crumbles around her.
    Jack Dunn, Variety, 5 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The debris collides with Earth's atmosphere at high speed and disintegrates, creating fiery and colorful streaks in the sky.
    Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Recruits typically come from deprived areas, and as Russia’s economy disintegrates in slow motion, the bonanza offered by the army looks increasingly appealing.
    David Hambling, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Slide Away then descends on Los Angeles’ Hollywood Palladium on May 29 and 30 with Cryogeyser, Mint Field, Ovlov, Seko, and Terraplana rounding out the lineup.
    Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The slow ascent lasts about half a mile before the trail descends down a hillside.
    Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The heartwood in the tree’s center decays first and makes for easy excavating.
    Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 21 Sep. 2025
  • This could include some sort of novel, exotic form of mass or energy, a non-standard form of dark matter or dark energy that decays or otherwise interacts, or a modification to one or more laws of physics.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Hitching a trailer to any vehicle dramatically worsens aerodynamics, essentially turning it into a giant parachute.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The raw sewage rises to the surface, adding to the unbearable stink, which spreads and worsens with every passing day.
    Eli Sharabi, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Fox News showed year-over-year viewership growth in the September ratings, while CNN and MSNBC saw significant audience declines.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2025
  • If either side declines to pick up their side of the option, as seems likely, Steer and the left-handed-hitting Will Benson could form a platoon in left field to replace Hays, with TJ Friedl in center and Noelvi Marte in right.
    C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Rots.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rots. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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