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Also Inflected form of wear

worn

UK/wɔːn/ US/woːn/ common

adjective

1.

affected by wear; damaged by long use

  • “worn threads on the screw”
  • “a worn suit”
  • “the worn pockets on the jacket”
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

Origin

By analogy to past participles like torn from tear and sworn from swear.

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