 7 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
worn
See {wear}
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
wear
noun
1: impairment resulting from long use; "the tires showed uneven
wear"
2: a covering designed to be worn on a person's body [syn: {clothing},
{article of clothing}, {vesture}]
3: the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment;
"she bought it for everyday wear" [syn: {wearing}]
verb
1: be dressed in; "She was wearing yellow that day" [syn: {have
on}]
2: have on one's person; "He wore a red ribbon"; "bear a scar"
[syn: {bear}]
3: have in one's aspect; wear an expression of one's attitude
or personality; "He always wears a smile"
4: deteriorate through use or stress; "The constant friction
wore out the cloth" [syn: {wear off}, {wear out}, {wear
thin}]
5: have or show an appearance of; "wear one's hair in a certain
way"
6: last and be usable; "This dress wore well for almost ten
years" [syn: {hold out}, {endure}]
7: go to pieces; "The lawn mower finally broke"; "The gears
wore out"; "The old chair finally fell apart completely"
[syn: {break}, {wear out}, {bust}, {fall apart}]
8: exhaust or tire through overuse or great strain or stress;
"We wore ourselves out on this hike" [syn: {tire}, {wear
upon}, {tire out}, {weary}, {jade}, {wear out}, {outwear},
{wear down}, {fag out}, {fag}, {fatigue}] [ant: {refresh}]
9: put clothing on one's body; "What should I wear today?"; "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" [syn: {put on}, {get into},
{don}, {assume}]
[also: {worn}, {wore}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
worn
adjective
1: affected by wear; damaged by long use; "worn threads on the
screw"; "a worn suit"; "the worn pockets on the
jacket" [ant: {unworn}]
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}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wear \Wear\, verb (used with an object) [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}.]
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 she 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 {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.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Warn \Warn\ (w[add]rn), verb (used with an object) [OE. wernen, AS. weornan, wyrnan.
Cf. {Warn} to admonish.]
To refuse. [Written also {wern}, {worn}.] [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Worn \Worn\,
p. p. of {Wear}.
{Worn land}, land that has become exhausted by tillage, or
which for any reason has lost its fertility.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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