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单词 worn
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wornadj.

Brit. /wɔːn/, U.S. /wɔrn/
Forms: see wear v.1; also 1600s wooren.
Etymology: past participle of wear v.1
1.
a. Impaired by wear or use, or by exposure; showing the results of use or attrition.
ΘΠ
the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > by loss of material or wasted > worn
attrite?a1475
worn1508
fretted1545
battered1593
trite1601
obsolete1611
obtrite1656
attrited1691
eroded1741
worn-down1814
1508 J. Fisher Treat. Penyt. Psalmes sig. ss.iii Heuen & erth shall perysshe... Theyr condycyons shall in maner be olde & worne.
1563 in Inuentaires de la Royne Descosse (Bannatyne Club) 57 Mair ane vther coitt of blew veluot weill auld and worne.
1574 J. Baret Aluearie W 373 Old worne houses and rotten, exesæ ædes. Cic.
1575 A. Fleming tr. Virgil Bucolics vi. 17 The waightye pott of Bacchus with worne eares [L. attrita ansa].
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xxii. 64 Whether it be a worne footing or a sharpe cuttying foote.
1817 J. Keats Spec. Induction 15 From the worn top of some old battlement.
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. iii. 85 His dress consisted of..a worn dark suit.
1847 A. Gatty Bell Pref. The worn pen of an habitual sermon writer.
1897 Westm. Gaz. 31 Mar. 8/1 By the new arrangement, bankers in the country are deprived of all excuse for not sending in their worn coins.
1913 E. Wharton Custom of Country ii. xv. 203 The curtains of worn damask.
b. figurative. Of words or ideas: Hackneyed by use or repetition; trite.
ΘΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > self-evident truth, axiom > [adjective] > trite, well-worn
worn1569
seta1616
well-worn1621
copybook1848
overdriven1888
tired1951
1569 T. Roest tr. J. van der Noot Theatre Worldlings 37 Hys woren Romyshe trashe patched and newly redressed.
1641 R. Carpenter Experience, Hist., & Divinitie iii. v. 47 According to the worne axiome of Divinity,..Grace perfecteth nature.
1853 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Last Fruit 17 There you will see the most honourable men at the helm of government, who never thought their worn words worth keeping any more than their worn cloaths.
2.
a. Of persons: Wasted, enfeebled, or exhausted by toil, exposure, age, anxiety, or ill-health; showing signs of such enfeeblement. (Cf. care-worn n. at care n.1 Compounds 3.) Also of animals. Also in combinations, as worn-looking adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > weak
unmightyeOE
unferea1060
unwieldc1220
fade1303
lewc1325
weak1340
fainta1375
sicklyc1374
unwieldyc1386
impotent1390
delicatea1398
lowa1398
unmighta1450
unlustyc1450
low-brought1459
wearyc1480
failed1490
worn1508
caduke?1518
fainty1530
weak1535
debile1536
fluey1545
tewly?1547
faltering1549
puling1549
imbecilec1550
debilitate1552
flash1562
unable1577
unhealthful1595
unabled1597
whindling1601
infirm1608
debilitated1611
bedrid1629
washya1631
silly1636
fluea1645
tender1645
invaletudinary1661
languishant1674
valetudinaire?c1682
puly1688
thriftless1693
unheartya1699
wishy-washy1703
enervate1706
valetudinarian1713
lask1727
wersh1755
palliea1774
wankle1781
asthenic1789
atonic1792
squeal1794
adynamic1803
worn-down1814
totterish1817
asthenical1819
prostrate1820
used up1823
wankya1825
creaky1834
groggy1834
puny1838
imbeciled1840
rickety-rackety1840
muscleless1841
weedy1849
tottery1861
crocky1880
wimbly-wambly1881
ramshackle1889
twitterly1896
twittery1907
wonky1919
strung out1959
the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective] > showing signs of weariness or exhaustion
wearyOE
haggard1605
toil-worn1752
tired-faced1895
tired-eyed1905
worn-looking1918
1508 [see sense 1a].
1574 J. Baret Aluearie W 373 An old worne souldiour, past warre which had a pension.
1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 17 Finding him so worne and wasted with continual mourning.
1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades ix. 164 Though..The hie and mightie gods should say they would againe renew To youth my worne corpse.
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1368/1 To doctor Sanders a naturall borne subiect, but an vnnaturall worne priest.
1688 S. Pepys Mem. Royal Navy (1690) 157 A worn unassisted Secretary.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 550 So worn, so wretched, so despis'd a Crew.
1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion vii. 351 To conceal Tender emotions spreading from the heart To his worn cheek. View more context for this quotation
1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes I. viii. 302 The President..looked somewhat worn and anxious, and well he might.
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxiv. 245 I..was shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face.
1870 T. H. Huxley Lay Serm. iii. 48 The serene resting-place for worn human nature—the world of art.
a1891 T. B. Aldrich Lander in Cent. Dict. Lead the worn war-horse by the pluméd bier.
1918 M. B. Lowndes Out of War? 48 Stern worn~looking man.
1978 D. Murphy Place Apart vi. 120 They seem so watchful and worn-looking.
b. Of land: Spent, exhausted, no longer fertile.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [adjective] > infertile
unbearingc825
geasonOE
unkindc1330
barren1377
unfructuousa1382
poora1387
leanc1420
exile?1440
salt1535
unfruitful?1542
sterile1572
dead1577
unlusty1580
queasy1593
heartless1594
unfertile1596
emacerated1610
sapless1655
unprolific1672
uncivil1676
ungrateful1681
worn1681
teemless1687
unproductive1725
poorish1767
ill-conditioned1796
scanty1797
rammelly1808
starve-acre1891
the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] > exhausted
worn1681
sickly1697
potato-sick1834
harvestless1868
scourged1880
turnip-sick1880
soil-sick1962
desertified1980
1681 R. Knox Hist. Relation Ceylon 20 Which Inclosures they will keep up for several years, until the Ground becomes so worn, that the Flowers will thrive there no longer.
1860 J. E. Worcester Dict. Eng. Lang. (citing Gray).
3. Of time, a period: Past, spent. Obsolete.
ΘΠ
the world > time > relative time > the past > [adjective]
formerc1160
apassedc1314
past1340
preterite1340
eldera1400
elderna1400
eldernlya1400
bygone1424
bypast1452
ancient1490
by-runa1522
bywenta1522
spent1528
departed1552
forepassed1557
preter1578
by-come1592
worn-out1594
preterlapsed1599
foregone1609
worna1616
elapseda1644
lapsed1702
surpassed1725
gone-by1758
back1808
old-time1865
by-flown1884
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) v. i. 141 Infirmitie (Which waits vpon worne times). View more context for this quotation
4. With adverb. (See also worn-out adj.)
a. worn-down adj. in senses 1, 2 above.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > weak
unmightyeOE
unferea1060
unwieldc1220
fade1303
lewc1325
weak1340
fainta1375
sicklyc1374
unwieldyc1386
impotent1390
delicatea1398
lowa1398
unmighta1450
unlustyc1450
low-brought1459
wearyc1480
failed1490
worn1508
caduke?1518
fainty1530
weak1535
debile1536
fluey1545
tewly?1547
faltering1549
puling1549
imbecilec1550
debilitate1552
flash1562
unable1577
unhealthful1595
unabled1597
whindling1601
infirm1608
debilitated1611
bedrid1629
washya1631
silly1636
fluea1645
tender1645
invaletudinary1661
languishant1674
valetudinaire?c1682
puly1688
thriftless1693
unheartya1699
wishy-washy1703
enervate1706
valetudinarian1713
lask1727
wersh1755
palliea1774
wankle1781
asthenic1789
atonic1792
squeal1794
adynamic1803
worn-down1814
totterish1817
asthenical1819
prostrate1820
used up1823
wankya1825
creaky1834
groggy1834
puny1838
imbeciled1840
rickety-rackety1840
muscleless1841
weedy1849
tottery1861
crocky1880
wimbly-wambly1881
ramshackle1889
twitterly1896
twittery1907
wonky1919
strung out1959
the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > by loss of material or wasted > worn
attrite?a1475
worn1508
fretted1545
battered1593
trite1601
obsolete1611
obtrite1656
attrited1691
eroded1741
worn-down1814
1814 Sporting Mag. 44 147 The poor worn-down sort [of horses] are the most common victims of this barbarity.
1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 265 A worn-down crater.
1845 C. Darwin Jrnl. (ed. 2) xix. 440 The worn-down sandstone.
1849–52 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. ii. 876/2 The old worn-down tooth is shed.
b. worn-in, ingrained by attrition or exposure to weather. (Cf. inworn adj.)
ΘΠ
the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > [adjective] > worn in
inworn1641
worn-in1883
1883 Good Words Aug. 543/2 Weather-stain and worn-in dirt.
c. worn-up (wear v.1 10b) = worn-out adj. 2.
ΘΠ
the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective]
wearyc825
asadc1306
ateyntc1325
attaintc1325
recrayed1340
methefula1350
for-wearya1375
matea1375
taintc1380
heavy1382
fortireda1400
methefula1400
afoundered?a1425
tewedc1440
travailedc1440
wearisomec1460
fatigate1471
defatigatec1487
tired1488
recreant1490
yolden?1507
fulyeit?a1513
traiked?a1513
tavert1535
wearied1538
fatigated1552
awearya1555
forwearied1562
overtired1567
spenta1568
done1575
awearied1577
stank1579
languishinga1586
bankrupt?1589
fordone1590
spent1591
overwearied1592
overworn1592
outworn1597
half-dead1601
back-broken1603
tiry1611
defatigated1612
dog-wearya1616
overweary1617
exhaust1621
worn-out1639
embossed1651
outspent1652
exhausted1667
beaten1681
bejaded1687
harassed1693
jaded1693
lassate1694
defeata1732
beat out1758
fagged1764
dog-tired1770
fessive1773
done-up1784
forjeskit1786
ramfeezled1786
done-over1789
fatigued1791
forfoughten1794
worn-up1812
dead1813
out-burnta1821
prostrate1820
dead beat1822
told out1822
bone-tireda1825
traiky1825
overfatigued1834
outwearied1837
done like (a) dinner1838
magged1839
used up1839
tuckered outc1840
drained1855
floored1857
weariful1862
wappered1868
bushed1870
bezzled1875
dead-beaten1875
down1885
tucked up1891
ready (or fit) to drop1892
buggered-up1893
ground-down1897
played1897
veal-bled1899
stove-up1901
trachled1910
ragged1912
beat up1914
done in1917
whacked1919
washy1922
pooped1928
shattered1930
punchy1932
shagged1932
shot1939
whipped1940
buggered1942
flaked (out)1942
fucked1949
sold-out1958
wiped1958
burnt out1959
wrung out1962
juiced1965
hanging1971
zonked1972
maxed1978
raddled1978
zoned1980
cream crackered1983
1812 Sporting Mag. 39 209 A purchaser of worn-up horses.

Derivatives

ˈwornness n. worn condition.
Π
1873 A. D. Whitney Other Girls vi. 72 The first poetry, the first fresh touches [of her new life]..were passed into established use, and dulled into wornness and commonness.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

wornv.

Etymology: ? representing Old English weornian to wither, fade.
Obsolete. rare.
intransitive. To waste away.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > deteriorate in condition [verb (intransitive)] > waste away
wastec1400
wear1414
consume1526
worna1538
absume1590
smartle1673
a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 51 & so hyt fallyth in to manyfest dekey & by lytyl & lytyl wornyth away.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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adj.1508v.a1538
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