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This one describes the bashers in a nice scientific way:

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saprogenic

PRONUNCIATION:
(sap-ro-JEN-ik)

MEANING:
adjective: Causing or produced by decay.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek sapro- (rotten) + -genic (producing). Earliest documented use: 1876.

USAGE:
“By 1883 the long fingers of the decay had spread like saprogenic tendrils into every house.”
M. Allen Cunningham; The Green Age of Asher Witherow; Unbridled Books; 2004.

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