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from The Century Dictionary.

  • To eat or prey upon, as a moth eats a garment: only in the past participle.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb Rarely used except in the form moth-eaten, p. p. or a. To eat or prey upon, as a moth eats a garment.

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