mothball

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1. mothball - Noun

2. mothball - Verb

a small sphere of camphor or naphthalene used to keep moths away from stored clothing

put into long-term storage

Source: WordNet

camphor ball can keep naphthalene table ball maintain stay store drop delay preserve interrupt dissolve cancel

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orb ball store globe

And it struck her once, in her forties, that she really had no notion what had become of that grandpa with the mothball breath. Source: Internet

Eating one naphthalene mothball is enough to make cats and small dogs very sick so this is not a situation to be ignored. Source: Internet