(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:18:31

Moth"-eat` (?), v. t.

To eat or prey upon, as a moth eats a garment.

[Rarely used except in the form moth-eaten, p.p. or a.]

Ruin and neglect have so moth-eaten her. Sir T. Herbert.

 

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