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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. affected by wear; damaged by long use;
- Example: "worn threads on the screw"
- Example: "a worn suit"
- Example: "the worn pockets on the jacket"

2. showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering;
- Example: "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"
- Example: "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"
- Example: "that raddled but still noble face"
- Example: "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens
[syn: careworn, drawn, haggard, raddled, worn]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Warn \Warn\ (w[add]rn), v. t. [OE. wernen, AS. weornan, wyrnan. Cf. Warn to admonish.] To refuse. [Written also wern, worn.] [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Wear \Wear\, v. t. [imp. Wore (w[=o]r); p. p. Worn (w[=o]rn); p. pr. & vb. n. Wearing. Before the 15th century wear was a weak verb, the imp. & p. p. being Weared.] [OE. weren, werien, AS. werian to carry, to wear, as arms or clothes; akin to OHG. werien, weren, to clothe, Goth. wasjan, L. vestis clothing, vestire to clothe, Gr. "enny`nai, Skr. vas. Cf. Vest.] [1913 Webster] 1. To carry or bear upon the person; to bear upon one's self, as an article of clothing, decoration, warfare, bondage, etc.; to have appendant to one's body; to have on; as, to wear a coat; to wear a shackle. [1913 Webster] What compass will you wear your farthingale? --Shak. [1913 Webster] On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 2. To have or exhibit an appearance of, as an aspect or manner; to bear; as, she wears a smile on her countenance. "He wears the rose of youth upon him." --Shak. [1913 Webster] His innocent gestures wear A meaning half divine. --Keble. [1913 Webster] 3. To use up by carrying or having upon one's self; hence, to consume by use; to waste; to use up; as, to wear clothes rapidly. [1913 Webster] 4. To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend. [1913 Webster] That wicked wight his days doth wear. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] The waters wear the stones. --Job xiv. 19. [1913 Webster] 5. To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole. [1913 Webster] 6. To form or shape by, or as by, attrition. [1913 Webster] Trials wear us into a liking of what, possibly, in the first essay, displeased us. --Locke. [1913 Webster] To wear away, to consume; to impair, diminish, or destroy, by gradual attrition or decay. To wear off, to diminish or remove by attrition or slow decay; as, to wear off the nap of cloth. To wear on or To wear upon, to wear. [Obs.] "[I] weared upon my gay scarlet gites [gowns.]" --Chaucer. To wear out. (a) To consume, or render useless, by attrition or decay; as, to wear out a coat or a book. (b) To consume tediously. "To wear out miserable days." --Milton. (c) To harass; to tire. "[He] shall wear out the saints of the Most High." --Dan vii. 25. (d) To waste the strength of; as, an old man worn out in military service. To wear the breeches. See under Breeches. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Worn \Worn\, p. p. of Wear. [1913 Webster] Worn land, land that has become exhausted by tillage, or which for any reason has lost its fertility. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

worn adj 1: affected by wear; damaged by long use; "worn threads on the screw"; "a worn suit"; "the worn pockets on the jacket" [ant: new] 2: showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens [syn: careworn, drawn, haggard, raddled, worn]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

169 Moby Thesaurus words for "worn": abated, ablated, ablative, attenuated, ausgespielt, back-number, banal, bare, bated, belittled, bewhiskered, biodegradable, bromidic, burned-out, careworn, common, commonplace, consumed, contracted, corny, corrosive, crumbling, curtailed, cut-and-dried, debilitated, decomposable, decomposing, decreased, deep-worn, deflated, degradable, devitalized, dilapidated, diminished, disabled, disintegrable, disintegrated, disintegrating, disintegrative, disjunctive, disruptive, dissipated, dog-eared, drained, drawn, drooping, droopy, dropped, dusty, effete, enervated, enfeebled, eroded, erosive, eviscerated, exhausted, fade, fagged, faint, fainting, fallen, familiar, fatigued, feeling faint, flagging, footsore, frazzled, fusty, gone to seed, good and tired, hackney, hackneyed, haggard, hand-me-down, hollow-eyed, incapacitated, jaded, languid, less, lesser, lower, lowered, mildewed, miniaturized, moldering, moldy, moss-grown, moth-eaten, musty, not new, old hat, pawed-over, pinched, platitudinous, played out, ravaged, ready to drop, reduced, resolvent, retrenched, ruined, ruinous, run ragged, run-down, rusty, sagging, sapped, scaled-down, secondhand, seedy, separative, sere, set, shelfworn, shopworn, shorn, shorter, shrunk, shrunken, smaller, solvent, spent, square, stale, stereotyped, stock, threadbare, time-scarred, timeworn, tired, tired-eyed, tired-faced, tired-looking, tired-winged, toilworn, trite, truistic, unnew, unoriginal, unrefreshed, unrestored, used, used up, wan, warmed-over, wasted, watered-down, way-weary, wayworn, weak, weakened, wearied, weariful, weary, weary-footed, weary-laden, weary-looking, weary-winged, weary-worn, well-known, well-worn, wilting, worn down, worn ragged, worn thin, worn to rags, worn to threads, worn-down, worn-out