Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Eaten or burrowed into by worms.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Eaten into by a worm; gnawed, bored, or perforated by worms of any kind; abounding in wormholes; wormy: as, worm-eaten timber, fabrics, fruit.
- Old, worn-out, or worthless, as if eaten by worms.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Eaten, or eaten into, by a worm or by worms.
- adjective rare Worn-out; old; worthless.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Eaten by worms, especially having a worm inside.
- adjective by extension
Rotten ordecrepit .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms
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Examples
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Catherine held the mask up so that Park could get a better look at its worm-eaten features, previously seen in close-up on the infamous zombie sex tape.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Shock Treatment Greg Cox 2010
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Catherine held the mask up so that Park could get a better look at its worm-eaten features, previously seen in close-up on the infamous zombie sex tape.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Shock Treatment Greg Cox 2010
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Since I'm looking for something dimensional and realistic, involving flora and fauna (basically, if it works out, I might eventually wind up with a partial sleeve of leaf litter and tiny animals -- newts and spiders and snails and daddy longlegses and toads and so forth -- but I'm starting off with a slightly worm-eaten maple leaf and a curious spider on my left wrist) I wanted somebody whose style was sort of Audobon-esque.
I have updated my lj theme. matociquala 2008
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Catherine held the mask up so that Park could get a better look at its worm-eaten features, previously seen in close-up on the infamous zombie sex tape.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Shock Treatment Greg Cox 2010
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I am accustomed to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself -- such as that old, worm-eaten chestnut that I have represented myself as indispensable.
Lance Mannion: 2008
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When he hits the boards, they're so worm-eaten that they break and he keeps going down into the basement.
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The third worm-eaten plank is Obama's undivided support of the American labor unions.
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The third worm-eaten plank is Obama's undivided support of the American labor unions.
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Aura looks out her window for a sign of her brother but sees only a caterpillar inching its way along the worm-eaten frame.
The Lady Matador’s Hotel Cristina García 2010
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I am accustomed to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself -- such as that old, worm-eaten chestnut that I have represented myself as indispensable.
Nira meets Fala 2008
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