Cut
Cut verb - To penetrate with a sharp edge (as a knife).
Rot
Rot verb - To become worse or of less value.
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Both words in one sentence
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Navy's submarines and Japan's numerous island garrisons were either cut off and left to "rot on the vine" or taken by overwhelming assault by the U.S.
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The half-million men of the China Expeditionary Force had been largely cut off from supplies and its garrisons were left to rot on the vine, scouring the countryside for food and grain on an even greater scale than ever before even as Generalissimo Chiang's Guomindang moved to crush them one by one.
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Gem-Encrusted: Just about any physical object that does not rot can be encrusted with cut gems to increase its value.
Source: Video Game / Dwarf Fortress
Cite this Source
Rot and Cut. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/cut/rot
Cut & Rot. N.p., 2016. Web. 07 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/cut/rot>.
Rot or Cut. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/cut/rot.
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