Meaning of time-eaten | Babel Free

Definitions

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

dated, figuratively, literary, not-comparable, obsolete

Examples

“At length, he paused before a massive building of time-eaten stone, and, turning abruptly to the knight, exclaimed,”

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

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

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

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