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
It is the only thing that will prevent what is known as the "dry-rot" from attacking her timbers.
From Harper's Young People, June 15, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
Kyanise, kī′an-īz, v.t. to preserve from dry-rot by injecting corrosive sublimate into the pores of the wood.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
As far as my reading has taken me, it seems to be the dry-rot of nations.
From The World Peril of 1910 by Griffith, George Chetwynd
