In this arid place, wood rotted slowly, especially if it was cedar.

It's only the outer ring that's alive; the wood of the interior is dead and in the center has rotted away.

Now it was gone, its stones stolen, its wood rotted away.

Because the wood at the center of the tree had rotted, it could not be analyzed.

The dark doorway at its base was empty, the wood long rotted away and the hinges gone to dust.

The wood had rotted in quite a few places.

The bare wood around the kitchen sink was rotting.

It was a chair, the wood of which had rotted so that it easily broke beneath his weight.

The wood of the newly constructed barracks was already soft and rotting away.

Untreated wood rots within five years of use in earth shelter construction.