time-eaten

adjective

Of an object, aged by the passage of time; ancient; dilapidated.

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Meanings

adjectivetime-eaten (not comparable)
  1. datedfigurativelyliterarynot comparableobsoleteOf an object, aged by the passage of time; ancient; dilapidated.

    The low rust skyline of a time-eaten iron town.

    2004, China Miéville, Iron Council
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    At length, he paused before a massive building of time-eaten stone, and, turning abruptly to the knight, exclaimed,

    1841, George William Lovell (contributor), The Trustee. By the Author of the Tragedy of “The Provost of Bruges,” Etc. [G. W. Lovell.], page 169

    To heaven with that ungodly gloom! / Time-eaten towers that tremble not!

    1835, Edgar Allen Poe, Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 2, page 552

    The Time-eaten names of the Consuls in that Monumentum Ancyranum above-mentioned, as riddled out by T.L.

    1910, James Augustus Henry Murray (editor), A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles - Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society · Volume 8, Part 2, page 653
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