Due to acid rain and severe weathering, many of the inscriptions on the stele have become illegible.

The discovery was made in 1984, and a search of the churchyard at that time showed that the vast majority of the memorials had either disappeared of become illegible.

The majority of the extant text then turns to the specifics of preparing the fleet, with the text on the slab becoming illegible before the end of the decree.

By the time the printout was photographed and placed in the magazine, it had become a bit illegible.

The ink weathered and became illegible, the department found.

Fleur's pen resumed its swift strokes, already becoming slightly illegible.

By the end of the series the coins had become illegible and debased, and were too thin to serve for practical commerce.

Many of the texts had become illegible and many of the parchments had darkened considerably.

NO MORE NUKES, it said, just like the tattered old one Don had carried for so many years that it had become practically illegible.

On the north side of the cemetery is a pedimented memorial with an explanation of the burial site, although it has become practically illegible.