Meaning of dry rot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The crumbly, decayed portions of wooden members of buildings, especially at or below grade, usually caused by a fungal infection.
   uncountable
2. Any progression of decay, corruption, or obsolescence.
   figuratively, uncountable
3. A fungal infection which affects plants, in particular potatoes.
   uncountable

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Examples

“They are, for the most part, low-roofed, mouldy rooms, where innumerable rolls of parchment, which have⟳ been perspiring in secret for the last⟳ century, send⟳ forth an agreeable odour, which is mingled by day with the scent of the dry-rot, and by night with the various exhalations which arise⟳ from damp cloaks, festering umbrellas, and the coarsest tallow candles.”

“Therefore I am like⟳ a moth to Ephraim, and like⟳ dry rot to the house of Judah.”

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