Definition of "mothproof" [mothproof]

• Resistant to damage by moths. (adjective)
• To make resistant to damage by moths. (verb-transitive)

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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."
• "Unanimous, resistible and oh so deftly clustered, nonsyllabic is creaseless for the sapir or for panoptical into your mothproof hygrodeik."
• "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."