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figurative (of persons and things). Decayed, decrepit; antiquated, outworn.
= worm-eaten, adj., literal and figurative.
Physiology. That has passed through the process of involution: see involution, n. 4.
Of or pertaining to the bodily change of involution (sense 4), or to mental disturbances associated with this change.