Time-eaten

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of an object, aged by the passage of time; ancient; dilapidated. dated, figuratively, literary, not-comparable, obsolete

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

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

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