rot
 transitive verb
 apodrecer
EN Modern science would still like to know what the secret ingredients were that the Egyptians used when they wrapped up dead people so that their faces would not rot for innumerable centuries.
GL Á ciencia moderna aínda lle gustaría saber cales eran os ingredientes secretos que os exipcios usaban para envolve-los mortos de xeito que a cara non lles apodrecese durante innumerables séculos.
 Fonte: VIX (328)
podrecer
EN But I am not in the least pain upon that matter, because it is very well known that they are every day dying and rotting by cold and famine, and filth and vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected.
GL Mais non sinto a mínima mágoa por este asunto porque xa se sabe ben que tódolos días hai xente morrendo e podrecendo por mor do frío e da carpanta, da roña e dos bichocos, máis rápido do que normalmente se podería esperar.
Fonte: PRO (34)
descompoñerse
EN Formed out of thousands of years of river deposits, the mud would have been rich in organic matter --material that rots to produce huge amounts of methane gas.
GL A lama, resultado de milleiros de anos de depósitos fluviais, debía ser rica en materias orgánicas, que, ó se descompoñeren, producen inmensas cantidades de metano.
Fonte: C32 (829)
noun
podremia
EN Slowly and painfully, with broom and pail, mopping, scouring, Mrs McNab, Mrs Bast stayed the corruption and the rot.
GL Pousada e traballosamente, coa vasoira e o balde, limpando, fregando, a señora McNab e maila señora Bast detiveron a degradación e a podremia.
Fonte: CAR (2137)
ferruxe
EN Unless balanced by studies that give more exercise, more excitement, and more aliment to the faculties, I am convinced, by all I have observed, that this practice is the dry rot of the human mind.
GL Salvo se está equilibrada por estudios que dean máis exercicio, máis excitación e máis alimento ás facultades, estou convencido, por todo o que teño observado que esta práctica é a ferruxe seca da mente humana.
Fonte: LET (224)
parvada
EN What damned rot they talk, thought Charles Tansley, laying down his spoon precisely in the middle of his plate, which he had swept clean, as if, Lily thought (he sat opposite to her with his back to the window precisely in the middle of view), he were determined to make sure of his meals.
GL Que condenadas parvadas están a dicir, pensou Charles Tansley, pousando a culler xusto no centro do prato, que deixara completamente limpo, coma se, pensaba Lily (estaba sentado enfronte dela e de costas á ventá, xusto no centro da paisaxe), quixese asegura-lo seu sustento.
Fonte: CAR (1252)
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