Moth-eat

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Moth-eat \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.]
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           Ruin and neglect have so moth-eaten her. --Sir T.


                                                    Herbert.
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