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worm-eaten

[ wurm-eet-n ]

adjective

  1. eaten into or gnawed by worms.
  2. impaired by time, decayed or antiquated.


worm-eaten

adjective

  1. eaten into by worms

    a worm-eaten table

  2. decayed; rotten
  3. old-fashioned; antiquated
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of worm-eaten1

1350–1400; Middle English wormeten; worm, eat, -en 3
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I sighed and thought my master’s soul was as hollow as a worm-eaten pistachio.

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Sailors on a secret wartime mission had already dealt with typhus, lice, blinding squalls, frostbite, worm-eaten biscuits, scurvy and the death of comrades since they set sail months earlier.

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The old clock stared at me from the dresser like a worm-eaten stump, all useless and dead.

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The brilliant snake's eyes that were set so deep in that dreadful rotting worm-eaten face glared unblinkingly at the witches who sat facing her.

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Faerie exists beside and below mortal towns, in the shadows of mortal cities, and at their rotten, derelict, worm-eaten centers.

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