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WORN OUT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted
Example:
you look worn out
Synonyms:
dog-tired; exhausted; fagged; fatigued; gone; played out; spent; washed-out; worn-out; worn out
Classified under:
Similar:
tired (depleted of strength or energy)
Context examples:
Quite worn out and broken up.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
But I do flatter myself, my dear Jane, that my influence is not entirely worn out.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
“I am worn out with civility,” said he.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I had worn out my boots paddling up office stairs, and I seemed just as far from getting a billet as ever.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We laid her head for the nearest port in Spanish America, for we could not risk the voyage home without fresh hands; and as it was, what with baffling winds and a couple of fresh gales, we were all worn out before we reached it.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I soled my shoes with wood, which I cut from a tree, and fitted to the upper-leather; and when this was worn out, I supplied it with the skins of Yahoos dried in the sun.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
You never sit and tell me stories about Doady, when his shoes were worn out, and he was covered with dust—oh, what a poor little mite of a fellow!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I was pretty tired and worn out when I got to Hillingham.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I've been at it till I'm all worn out.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The wheels have been fairly worn out these ten years at least—and as for the body!
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
