NOUN
- a fungus causing dry rot
- a crumbling and drying of timber or bulbs or potatoes or fruit caused by a fungus
How To Use dry rot In A Sentence
- We clambered over the stile and onto a well-worn path fringed by dry rotting undergrowth.
- Old houses may be unsafe because of treatment for timber and dry rot. M. E. Post-Viral Fatigue Syndrome - How To Live With It
- Mr. Wilde was unable to say what was the nature of the rot in the wood spliced on to the original part of the bressummer, but he considered the stain on the original part of the beam to be evidence of dry rot.
- Dry rot destroyed what would have been a tourist honeypot.
- The inadequacy of the insulation may have caused condensation, giving rise to a risk of further outbreaks of dry rot.
- The teenage pyromaniacs experimented with different fuel sources, different sorts of fats (some very smelly) and oils, moss, dry rotten wood and home baked tinder using a cotton handkerchief.
- He also saw live dry rot in the form of mycelium and hyphae strands in the core of the brickwork.
- dry rot did the job of destroying the barn
- Attempting to boost immigration without addressing the root problems is like fixing a home with dry rot in the foundations by tacking on more weatherboards.
- The trees were in bad shape from dry rot.
