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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
adj
1. eaten into by worms a worm-eaten table
2. decayed; rotten
3. old-fashioned; antiquated
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.worm-eaten - infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms
worn - affected by wear; damaged by long use; "worn threads on the screw"; "a worn suit"; "the worn pockets on the jacket"
Translations
worm-eaten [ˈwɜːmˌiːtn] ADJ [wood] → carcomido, apolillado; [cloth] → apolillado; [fruit] → con gusanos
worm-eaten [ˈwɜːmˌiːtn] adj (apple) → bacato/a; (wood) → tarlato/a


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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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