The place smelled old and musty, as if the wood were slowly decaying around him as he climbed.

Where vertical posts supporting a deck enter the ground or are set in concrete, the wood often decays at ground level.

But if let to lie about, the wood decayed, so the work must be done at once and the planks allowed to dry and season in the air.

These defects suggest that the wood under the siding has decayed.

The wood decayed, but the arrangement of the letters survived.

He therefore never constructed a new bedroom, and eventually, the wood decayed after rain.

Because wood decays rapidly, the only remaining evidence of Han wooden architecture is a collection of scattered ceramic roof tiles.

The wood, exposed to the weather for decades, was not only splitting, but decaying with dry rot as well.

The dead wood decays slowly and can last for many years, on and off the plant.

Most of the houses were made of stone, since wood decays rather quickly in the middle of a tropical swamp.