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UK
/kˈeəwɔːn/
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ADJECTIVE
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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
shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face
that raddled but still noble face
How To Use careworn In A Sentence
- If we enter the nearest institution of Charity Sisters, Sisters of Mercy, or of the Poor, we cannot fail to remark the contrast between the healthful, cheery, unsolicitous countenances of the inmates, and the nervous, suffering, careworn faces of the wives and mothers in our midst. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864
- In my eight months away she'd become careworn, picking nervously at her fingers as she spoke, palpably lacking the confidence she once had.
- Her face was careworn with anxiety.
- As the male voice completed its speech, she slowly shifted herself around to face a gentleman of medium height who had a smiling, benign countenance on his careworn features.
- As they approached, he noticed their anxious yet hopeful eyes in careworn faces.
- Younger and wirier than his charge, talking a mile a minute and singing during his chores, he nonetheless shows a careworn, weary face, and he drinks on the sly.
- Beside her stood a crowned man with grey hair, his face careworn.
- The careworn look that Anil wore during the eight months of bitter battle had faded, and he was almost his usual self - brash, natty, and cheerful.
- They spoke in a careworn fashion that made me give up hope that music and art might make a difference to anything.
- Though the Head Boy of our year still looks cherubic, if a little careworn. President Kaczyński
