Usually means: Damaged by burrowing insect larvae.
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  1. worm-eaten: Merriam-Webster
  2. worm-eaten: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. worm-eaten: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. worm-eaten, worm-eaten: Collins English Dictionary
  5. worm-eaten: Vocabulary.com
  6. worm-eaten: Wordnik
  7. worm-eaten: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. worm-eaten: Wiktionary
  9. worm-eaten: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. worm-eaten: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. worm-eaten: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. worm-eaten: Dictionary.com
  13. Worm-eaten: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. worm-eaten: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. worm-eaten: Rhymezone
  16. Worm-eaten: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. worm-eaten: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. worm-eaten: FreeDictionary.org
  19. worm-eaten: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. worm-eaten: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. worm-eaten: Encyclopedia

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adjective:  Of fruit or other food, eaten by worms, especially having a worm inside.
adjective:  (figuratively, by extension) Rotten or decrepit.

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