Worn




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Warn \Warn\ (w[add]rn), v. t. [OE. wernen, AS. weornan, wyrnan.
Cf. Warn to admonish.]
To refuse. [Written also wern, worn.] [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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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.]
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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.
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What compass will you wear your farthingale? --Shak.
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore,
Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore. --Pope.
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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.
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His innocent gestures wear
A meaning half divine. --Keble.
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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.
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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.
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That wicked wight his days doth wear. --Spenser.
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The waters wear the stones. --Job xiv. 19.
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5. To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a
channel; to wear a hole.
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6. To form or shape by, or as by, attrition.
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Trials wear us into a liking of what, possibly, in
the first essay, displeased us. --Locke.
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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.]
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Worn \Worn\,
p. p. of Wear.
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Worn land, land that has become exhausted by tillage, or
which for any reason has lost its fertility.
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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]
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worn [wɔːn]
aufgehabt; getragen

worn} [wɔːn]
anhaben (Kleidung); tragen

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worn

elnyûtt
kopott


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worn
esausto, sfinito

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worn [wɔːn]
op; versleten

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worn [wɔːn]
gastado; usado

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worn

abgenutzt; abgenützt
worn

abgegriffen; abgenutzt adj
worn

getragen; angehabt; aufgehabt
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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



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