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What does worm-eaten mean?

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

Adjective
  1. Eaten by worms, especially having a worm inside.
  2. (by extension) Rotten or decrepit.
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Now, on the whole, this sort of vivid reference to rotting flesh and the worm-eaten body is not a very good argument for seduction.
Imposing at 75 inches on a side and 7 inches deep, the painting, like eight others shown here, has holes drilled in its edges, like worm-eaten driftwood.
In the Teynkirche stands the worm-eaten pulpit from which preached John Huss.
They fish a worm-eaten corpse out of the river while swimming.
I will take it since you offer it in kindness, old dame, this worm-eaten staff.
The popular response to this collapse of worm-eaten certainties has been an un-British surge of mass exhilaration.

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