Definitions for dry-rot

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Spelling: [drahy-rot]
IPA: /ˈdraɪˌrɒt/

Dry-Rot is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in dry-rot (-dorrty).

Definitions for dry-rot

noun

  1. 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.
  2. any concealed or unsuspected inner decay.

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to undergo or cause to undergo the action or effects of dry rot.

Origin of dry-rot

First recorded in 1865-70

Examples for dry-rot

It is the only thing that will prevent what is known as the "dry-rot" from attacking her timbers.

But that had been better than the dry-rot of an escape from righteous punishment.

Can anything be more pitiful than "a fine old family" afflicted with dry-rot like ours?

It might be stricken with dry-rot, elephantiasis and plica polonica for ought I care.

As far as my reading has taken me, it seems to be the dry-rot of nations.

He would rather have that than flabby silence, as if he were nailing into dry-rot.

A species of dry-rot appeared to have broken out in Liberalism.

The dry-rot principally attacks ill-seasoned timber, and more particularly that of ships and badly ventilated buildings.

Seasoning timber to prevent the dry-rot in ships, churches, and other buildings.

So every precaution must be taken against dampness and dry-rot.

Word Value for dry-rot
Scrable

7

Words with friends

6

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