recover vs rot

recover

verb
  • to salvage, to extricate, to rescue (a thing or person) 

  • To obtain a positive judgement; to win in a lawsuit. 

  • To regain one's composure, balance etc. 

  • To get better, to regain health or prosperity. 

  • To replenish to, resume (a good state of mind or body). 

  • To cover again. 

  • To add a new roof membrane or steep-slope covering over an existing one. 

  • To gain as compensation or reparation, usually by formal legal process 

  • To get back, to regain (a physical thing; in astronomy and navigation, sight of a thing or a signal). 

noun
  • A position of holding a firearm during exercises, whereby the lock is at shoulder height and the sling facing out. 

rot

verb
  • To spend a long period of time (in an unpleasant place). 

  • To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret. 

  • To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria. 

  • To decline in function or utility. 

  • 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. 

noun
  • Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs. 

  • The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction. 

  • Verbal nonsense. 

  • Decaying matter. 

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