Definitions for outworn

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outworn out·worn

Spelling: [out-wawrn, -wohrn]

IPA: /ˈaʊtˈwɔrn, -ˈwoʊrn/

Outworn is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 92 anagrams from letters in outworn (noortuw).

Definitions for outworn

verb

1. past participle of outwear.

adjective

1. out-of-date, outmoded, or obsolete:
2. worn-out, as clothes.
3. exhausted in strength or endurance, as persons.

verb (used with object)

1. to wear or last longer than; outlast:
2. to exhaust in strength or endurance:
3. to outlive or outgrow:
4. to wear out; destroy by wearing:
5. to pass (time):

Origin of outworn

First recorded in 1555-65; out- + worn

Examples for outworn

The old 54 age was outworn, and the new began to supersede it.

Strange how we use phrases which have outworn their meaning!

Say, friar; in my ear, now—Was that a hare you stewed, or an outworn sandal?

We understand that outworn programs are inadequate to the needs of our time.

The sleeping Roger represented things intolerable and outworn.

They're a failure as a sex and an outworn convention anyway.

The ladder is an old and outworn metaphor in this connexion.

It was in accordance with all these outworn conventions that they conducted the daily round.

A sleeve of the girl's frock was torn away, the outworn fabric in streamers.

Merely a little change in that outworn document, the Constitution.