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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
- Stoical, careworn Paul looks after her and his younger brother.
- The old woman has a careworn look on her face.
- Tom, who stood by her, idly spinning the curtain tassel, followed the familiar figure with his eye, and seeing how gray the hair had grown, how careworn the florid face, and how like a weary old man his once strong, handsome father walked, he was smitten by a new pang of self-reproach, and with his usual impetuosity set about repairing the omission as soon as he discovered it. An Old-Fashioned Girl
- I am taken into another room and a careworn man in a reassuringly green smock and matching trousers comes in to inspect the thigh.
- Finding the ideal relationship is still Zedek's primary lyrical focus, and her emotively careworn voice remains the strongest aspect of her music.
- He does repent," she said to herself, recalling the careworn face. Red Pottage
- However tired and careworn he looks - and he now mostly looks both - he performs well.
- Swallow looks tired and careworn and slightly seedy.
- This at least was Mara's voice, warm and careworn.
- He had a careworn face, moon-shaped and mournful; his attire was severe but did not quite fit. DEVIL'S BRIDE