worn

Etymology

By analogy to past participles like torn from tear and sworn from swear.

adj

  1. Damaged and shabby as a result of much use.
    Upon this, an unhappy-looking woman, in a sort of mourning, neat, but sadly worn, hid her face behind a meagre bundle, and was heard to sob. 1857, Herman Melville, chapter XVIII, in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
  2. Worn out; exhausted.
    Preëminently is the Lake District suited for the jaded and worn, who seek in solitude and amidst scenery unmoiled and unsullied by human artifice, refreshment alike of body and spirit. 1889, The Wesley Naturalist, volume 2, page 143

verb

  1. past participle of wear

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