资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Moth-eat \Moth"-eat`\, v. t.
   To eat or prey upon, as a moth eats a garment. [Rarely used
   except in the form moth-eaten, p. p. or a.]

         Ruin and neglect have so moth-eaten her. --Sir T.
                                                  Herbert.