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rot off

rot off verb: to fall off by rotting.

Verb

rot off (third-person singular simple present rots off, present participle rotting off, simple past and past participle rotted off)

  1. (intransitive) To fall off by rotting.
    • The branches eventually rotted off once the tree was uprooted.

Forms of rot off

third-person singular presentrots off
present participlerotting off
past participlerotted off
pastrotted off

Questions about rot off

What does rot off mean?
Rot off means to fall off by rotting.
What part of speech is rot off?
Rot off is a verb.
What is the past tense of rot off?
The past tense of rot off is rotted off.

Words near rot off in the dictionary

  1. rot
  2. rot away
  3. rot gut
  4. rot in hell
  5. rot me
  6. rot off
  7. rot pocket
  8. rot pockets
  9. rot through
  10. rot-13
  11. rot-geese

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