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worn

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adj/wɔːn//woːn//woɹn/
  1. 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.
    • In Pisa, where [Galileo] was born, I climbed the worn steps of the tower that has been leaning southward almost from the day it was built in the 13th century.
  2. 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.
verb/wɔːn//woːn//woɹn/
  1. 1

    past participle of wearform-ofparticiplepast

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