worm-eaten

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Of fruit or other food, eaten by worms, especially having a worm inside.
    — Once upon a time there was a lad, who went along a road cracking nuts. He happened to find one which was worm-eaten, and shortly afterwards he met the devil.
  2. Rotten or decrepit. broadly,figuratively
    — The wooden jetty on the East Pier had become worm-eaten and was demolished, but the Admiralty lent an old hulk to serve as a rough-and-ready packet facility.

词形变化

more worm-eaten comparative most worm-eaten superlative

词汇关系

近义词
maggoty wormridden
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