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worm-eaten

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worm-eat·en (wûrmtn)
adj.
1. Bored through or gnawed by worms.
2. Decayed; rotten.
3. Antiquated; decrepit.
worm-eaten
Adjective
eaten into by worms: worm-eaten beams
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Adj.1.worm-eaten - infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms
vermiculate, wormy
worn - affected by wear; damaged by long use; "worn threads on the screw"; "a worn suit"; "the worn pockets on the jacket"


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This attic was Maggie's favorite retreat on a wet day, when the weather was not too cold; here she fretted out all her ill humors, and talked aloud to the worm-eaten floors and the worm-eaten shelves, and the dark rafters festooned with cobwebs; and here she kept a Fetish which she punished for all her misfortunes.
The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context
It seemed peculiarly sad to sit here, thirteen hundred years before I was born, and listen again to poor, flat, worm-eaten jokes that had given me the dry gripes when I was a boy thirteen hundred years after- wards.
A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context
Passepartout, in his joy on reaching at last the American continent, thought he would manifest it by executing a perilous vault in fine style; but, tumbling upon some worm-eaten planks, he fell through them.
Around The World In Eighty Days by Verne, Jules View in context
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