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worm-eaten adj
1. eaten into by worms a worm-eaten table 2. decayed; rotten 3. old-fashioned; antiquated ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Translations worm-eaten [ˈwɜːmˌiːtn] ADJ [wood] → carcomido, apolillado; [cloth] → apolillado; [fruit] → con gusanos worm-eaten [ˈwɜːmˌiːtn] adj (apple) → bacato/a; (wood) → tarlato/a worm-eaten [ˈwɜːmˌiːtn] adj (apple) → bacato/a; (wood) → tarlato/a How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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. 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. 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. |
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