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dry rot
1noun
- Plant Pathology.
- a decay of seasoned timber, resulting in its becoming brittle and crumbling to a dry powder, caused by various fungi.
- any of various diseases of plants in which the rotted tissues are dry.
- any concealed or unsuspected inner decay.
dry-rot
2[ drahy-rot ]
verb (used with or without object)
, dry-rot·ted, dry-rot·ting.
- to undergo or cause to undergo the action or effects of dry rot.
dry rot
noun
- crumbling and drying of timber, bulbs, potatoes, or fruit, caused by saprotrophic basidiomycetous fungi
- any fungus causing this decay, esp of the genus Merulius
- moral degeneration or corrupt practices, esp when previously unsuspected
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Word History and Origins
Origin of dry rot1
First recorded in 1785–95
Origin of dry rot2
First recorded in 1865–70
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Example Sentences
A crust of conoidical shells covered the rock at certain points, the dry rot of the granite.
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The Spanish War had done more than give straps to a lot of civilians with pulls; it had eradicated the dry-rot from the Army.
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It is infested by the dry rot, and ready to tumble about our ears without their immediate help.
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I have what goes with all artist-matter—long periods of dry-rot when having nothing ripe to write I write nothing.
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Next to dry rot and vermin, a tenant with “a tongue” is the greatest enemy of the landlord of mean streets.
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