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What does moth-eaten mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word moth-eaten? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Containing holes by having been eaten by moth larvae.
  2. old and in poor condition
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But the room was almost empty except for 2 stools, a short table, a thin moth-eaten blanket, and an empty bookcase.
He wore a moth-eaten old fur cap and a shabby overcoat that was stretched tightly across his paunchy belly.
We sit in the moth-eaten upstairs lounge overlooking the St Helen's ground, with the surf pounding the adjacent beach.
We had a sheriff who played Santa Claus every year decked out in an unconvincing, moth-eaten, red suit.
He covered her with the moth-eaten blankets and the stale smell of the room clung to the walls and to her.
These clothes were dirty, old, moth-eaten, and had been out of fashion for at least fifty years.

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