dry-rot
Example Sentences
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He responds, animatedly for once, to the suggestion that Graham Greene, quizzed about his plots, would reply in the style of a solicitor or dry-rot inspector talking about a house.
From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 2010
In the U.S. the work of termites was long mistaken for that of fungi and dry-rot which usually follow their riddlings.
From Time Magazine Archive
But you can’t patch up a dry-rot, and Bolsover crumbled more and more the oftener it was touched.
From A Dog with a Bad Name by Reed, Talbot Baines
It was like a tree which seems all vigorous, but which, when one thrusts into the heart of it, proves to be pervaded by dry-rot.
From Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion by Peabody, Francis Greenwood
Damp, unventilated situations are most favourable to the development of dry-rot Fungi.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various
