Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Resistant to damage by moths.
- transitive verb To make resistant to damage by moths.
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- adjective
Proof against being eaten bymoths . - verb To use apply odoriferous materials intended to repel moths from clothing.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective resistant to damage by moths
- verb protect from moths
Etymologies
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Examples
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If care is taken to make the joints fit well, the box will be practically airtight and mothproof, providing a place in which to store extra bedding or furs.
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Unanimous, resistible and oh so deftly clustered, nonsyllabic is creaseless for the sapir or for panoptical into your mothproof hygrodeik.
Rational Review 2009
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In the last stage before the fabric is trundled off to the sewing machines or sometimes after it is sewn and assembled it’s usually treated to become what the textile industry calls “easy care,” which means soft, wrinkle resistant, stain and odor resistant, fireproof, mothproof, and antistatic.
THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010
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In the last stage before the fabric is trundled off to the sewing machines or sometimes after it is sewn and assembled it’s usually treated to become what the textile industry calls “easy care,” which means soft, wrinkle resistant, stain and odor resistant, fireproof, mothproof, and antistatic.
THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010
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In the last stage before the fabric is trundled off to the sewing machines or sometimes after it is sewn and assembled it’s usually treated to become what the textile industry calls “easy care,” which means soft, wrinkle resistant, stain and odor resistant, fireproof, mothproof, and antistatic.
THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010
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In the last stage before the fabric is trundled off to the sewing machines or sometimes after it is sewn and assembled it’s usually treated to become what the textile industry calls “easy care,” which means soft, wrinkle resistant, stain and odor resistant, fireproof, mothproof, and antistatic.
THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010
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Dahl returned to Dar es Salaam, packed most of his clothes into mothproof trunks, paid his bills, resigned from his club, and wrote to his mother asking her not to send him a luxury Christmas hamper because it will be difficult to eat those things . . . in an airmen’s mess.
Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010
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