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Worn

adjective

1.

Affected by wear; damaged by long use. "A worn suit" , "The worn pockets on the jacket"

2.

Showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering. Synonyms: careworn, drawn, haggard, raddled. "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"

Wear

verb

(past wore; past part. worn)

1.

Be dressed in. Synonym: have on.

2.

Have on one's person. Synonym: bear. "Bear a scar"

3.

Have in one's aspect; wear an expression of one's attitude or personality.

4.

Deteriorate through use or stress. Synonyms: wear down, wear off, wear out, wear thin.

5.

Have or show an appearance of.

6.

Last and be usable. Synonyms: endure, hold out.

7.

Go to pieces. Synonyms: break, bust, fall apart, wear out. "The gears wore out" , "The old chair finally fell apart completely"

8.

Exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress. Synonyms: fag, fag out, fatigue, jade, outwear, tire, tire out, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary.

9.

Put clothing on one's body. Synonyms: assume, don, get into, put on. "He put on his best suit for the wedding" , "The princess donned a long blue dress" , "The queen assumed the stately robes" , "He got into his jeans"

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"Worn" Quotes from Famous Books

... bowling season was of course over, but even during the season he had scarcely played. He was a changed person. And the greatest change of all had occurred that very morning. Throughout a long and active career he had worn paper collars. Paper collars had sufficed him, and they had not shocked his friends. But now he wore a linen collar, and eleven other linen collars were in his carpet-bag. Yet it has been said, by some individual who obviously lacked experience of human nature, that a man never changes the style ...

— Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.) • Arnold Bennett

... sometimes a fine violet purple. It reaches but little below the knees. It generally fails to meet the huipilili above, so that a broader or narrower band of fine, dark brown separates the two garments. Nothing is worn on the feet, which are exposed, as are also the finely shaped and beautifully developed arms. But the most striking article in the Tehuantepec woman's costume is her huipil, which travellers usually ...

— In Indian Mexico (1908) • Frederick Starr

... out upon the errands immediately. Warrington dropped down in the creaky rocking-chair, the only one in the boarding-house. He stared at the worn and faded carpet. How dingy everything looked! What a sordid rut he had been content to lie in! Chance: to throw this man across his path when he had almost forgotten him, forgotten that he had sworn to break the man's neck over his knees! In the very ...

— Parrot & Co. • Harold MacGrath

... in the fire and showed all three faces to one another—Mary's face, with its quietly absorbed expression of attentive interest—Reay's strongly moulded features, just now somewhat sternly shadowed by bitter memories—and Helmsley's thin, worn, delicately intellectual countenance, which in the brilliant rosy light flung upon it by the fire-glow, was like a fine waxen mask, impenetrable in its unmoved austerity and calm. Not so much as the faintest flicker ...

— The Treasure of Heaven - A Romance of Riches • Marie Corelli

... public playing are shown equally in his relations with people in everyday life. What may have been his true feelings is concealed—it is only the mask which is seen; and the mask was so constantly worn that it no doubt deceived many. Every now and again, however, we get a glimpse of his true nature in his intercourse with those who knew him best. Irritable to a degree, and occasionally outrageous as his conduct ...

— Story-Lives of Great Musicians • Francis Jameson Rowbotham

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