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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

WORN, pp. of wear; as a garment long worn.
Worn out, consumed or rendered useless by wearing.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

past participle of wear

Oxford Reference Dictionary

past part. of WEAR(1). --adj. 1 damaged by use or wear. 2 looking tired and exhausted. 3 (in full well-worn) (of a joke etc.) stale; often heard.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Warn Warn (w[add]rn), v. t. [OE. wernen, AS. weornan, wyrnan. Cf. Warn to admonish.] To refuse. [Written also wern, worn.] [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Wear Wear, v. t. [imp. Wore; p. p. Worn; 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. ?, Skr. vas. Cf. Vest.] 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. What compass will you wear your farthingale? --Shak. On her white breast a sparkling cross s?? wore, Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore. --Pope. 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. His innocent gestures wear A meaning half divine. --Keble. 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. 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. That wicked wight his days doth wear. --Spenser. The waters wear the stones. --Job xiv. 19. 5. To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole. 6. To form or shape by, or as by, attrition. Trials wear us into a liking of what, possibly, in the first essay, displeased us. --Locke. 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 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.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Worn Worn, p. p. of Wear. Worn land, land that has become exhausted by tillage, or which for any reason has lost its fertility.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Worn is the past participle of wear. 2. Worn is used to describe something that is damaged or thin because it is old and has been used a lot. Worn rugs increase the danger of tripping... ADJ: usu ADJ n 3. If someone looks worn, they look tired and old. She was looking very haggard and worn. ADJ: v-link ADJ 4. see also well-worn

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Impaired (by use), wasted, abraded, consumed, decayed, threadbare, worn out, used up, worn to a thread, worse for wear.

Moby Thesaurus

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