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🪵 Soft and spongy 🍄 Decayed wood 🪹 To rot
to puxy

to puxy

9.9
To become soft and spongy and break easily, often in wood
  • verb
: descomponerse
  • If you leave untreated wood outside, it will eventually puxy and crumble.

Examples

  • After years of rain and neglect, the old barn's beams began to puxy and lose their strength.

  • The wooden steps had puxied so much that they were unsafe to walk on.

  • The old tree has puxied over the years.

  • The logs were found to be puxying after the storm.

  • The fence posts began to puxy after being exposed to moisture for many months.

  • If the wood isn't treated properly, it will puxy and become weak over time.

  • They discovered that the old deck had puxied significantly, requiring urgent repairs.

Synonyms

to putrefy
vsto puxy
5 9.2

To rot and make a bad smell

becomes soft and spongy from rot rather than mainly smelling bad

Antonyms

to harden
49 2.6

Make something hard or solid

How Decayed

to puxy
9.9
to rot
145 1.4
to weather
4 5.8

Surface Forms

puxy infinitive
puxied past
puxied past participle
puxying present participle
puxies third person singular

Etymology

Puxy as a verb is like 'to become pulp-y': imagine wood rotting until it turns soft and mushy. So to puxy is to rot until something becomes 'soft and spongy'.