rot

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.

Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, / To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.

To decline in function or utility.

Your brain will rot if you spend so much time on the computer, Tony!

To (cause to) deteriorate in any way, as in morals; to corrupt.

To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.

to rot vegetable fiber

To spend a long period of time (in an unpleasant place or state).

to rot in prison

to rot in Hell

The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.

Decaying matter.

When a turkey vulture detects the scent of rot, it circles down, tracing the plume of chemicals to its source.

Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.

His cattle must of rot and murrain die.

Verbal nonsense.

You're talking rot! I don't believe a word.

Initialism of record of transmission.