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English
Etymology
By analogy to past participles like torn from tear and sworn from swear.
Pronunciation
Adjective
worn (comparative more worn, superlative most worn)
- Damaged and shabby as a result of much use.
- Worn out; exhausted.
1889, The Wesley Naturalist, volume 2, page 143: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.
Translations
damaged and shabby from too much use
- Bulgarian: износен (bg) (iznosen)
- Estonian: väsinud (et)
- Finnish: kulunut (fi)
- Galician: lampo (gl)
- Hungarian: elhasznált (hu), elnyűtt (hu), kopott (hu)
- Italian: logoro (it)
- Latin: trītus
- Maori: nguture, ruha, ruwha, tāwekoweko, waikauere, pūnguru, pūnguru
- Piedmontese: usà
- Portuguese: gastado m, gasto (pt), surrado (pt)
- Spanish: desgastado (es) m, desgastada (es) f
- Swedish: sliten (sv)
- Turkish: aşınmış (tr), yıpranmış, yalama (tr)
- Ukrainian: зно́шений (znóšenyj), поно́шений (ponóšenyj)
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Verb
worn
- past participle of wear
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Middle English
Verb
worn
- Alternative form of weren
Old English
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Noun
worn m
- great many, multitude
- crowd, swarm, band, flock
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