ADJECTIVE
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drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted
the day's shopping left her exhausted
only worn-out horses and cattle
you look worn out
was fagged and sweaty
he went to bed dog-tired
felt completely washed-out
the trembling of his played out limbs -
used until no longer useful
worn-out shoes with flapping soles
battered trumpets and raddled radios
How To Use worn-out In A Sentence
- only worn-out horses and cattle
- The pricey firm that does my curtains took one look and pronounced my upholstery too old and worn-out to survive its processes. Times, Sunday Times
- The legal procedural is such a worn-out television fixture, it's amazing that they keep being cranked out.
- Soon after this ordeal, Richard was bereaved by the death of his prematurely worn-out father.
- Women folded their worn-out linens and few spare clothes, packing them into cloth sacks to be carried.
- On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas that for far too long have strangled our politics.
- Certain sewing days in school, called darning days, are sacred to the renovation of worn-out garments which the girls bring from home. The New Education A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915)
- It will prompt marriages with worn-out widows so eaten with disease that 'the spital house and ulcerous sores/Would cast the gorge at'. Shakespeare
- Ryo was carrying a worn-out Chava on his back, and Zaila too looked tired and ornery.
- In the distant, lying on the summer grass is a body with a worn-out and raggedy cloak.
