Definitions
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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Examples
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Those forms—they're your competitive edge in the gypsy moth-eat elm world of tree lawyering.
Art Van Stiffel, Deciduous Tree Lawyer Con Chapman 2011
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