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time-eaten

time-eaten adjective: of an object, aged by the passage of time; ancient; dilapidated.

Adjective

time-eaten (not comparable)

  1. (dated, figuratively, literary, obsolete) Of an object, aged by the passage of time; ancient; dilapidated.
    • 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

Examples of time-eaten in a sentence

  • 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...
  • The low rust skyline of a time-eaten iron town.2004, China Miéville, Iron Council:

Questions about time-eaten

What does time-eaten mean?
Time-eaten means of an object, aged by the passage of time; ancient; dilapidated.
How do you use time-eaten in a sentence?
The Time-eaten names of the Consuls in that Monumentum Ancyranum above-mentioned, as riddled out by T.L.
What part of speech is time-eaten?
Time-eaten is an adjective.

Words near time-eaten in the dictionary

  1. time-domain electromagnetic method
  2. time-domain electromagnetic methods
  3. time-domain reflectometer
  4. time-domain reflectometers
  5. time-domain reflectometry
  6. time-eaten
  7. time-expired
  8. time-exposed
  9. time-exposure
  10. time-exposures
  11. time-fellow

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