Infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms.
1In the Teynkirche stands the worm-eaten pulpit from which preached John Huss.
2Jean-Christophe found himself on the stairs, the dark and dirty stairs, worm-eaten.
3Ian was looking a bit worm-eaten, and Jamie reckoned he kent why.
4The doors were high, and surmounted by quaint and worm-eaten carved work.
5A quantity of worm-eaten timber had been taken out from her sides.
6The woman's furniture-a table and two chairs-were crudely sawn from worm-eaten pinewood.
7It was a little worm-eaten bench, placed at a turn in the alley.
8I thought of the black-beetles, the old boxes, the worm-eaten bureau.
9The bare pine walls were worm-eaten, and the beams were blackened by smoke.
10It seemed as though it might be possible to pierce this worm-eaten barrier.
11All broken, and worm-eaten, and crumbling to dust at the edges.
12Behind the chimney there is surely a worm-eaten, wooden chest which excites curiosity.
13She laughed aloud at the old, worm-eaten joke and Jim joined.
14By ten o'clock the sea was tumbling and the worm-eaten hulk was laboring.
15His foot tried each round, as some of them were worm-eaten.
16I wonder why she gave you that withered and worm-eaten rose?