Definitions for worn

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worn worn

Spelling: [wawrn, wohrn]

IPA: /wɔrn, woʊrn/

Worn is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in worn (norw).

Definitions for worn

noun

1. the act of wearing; use, as of a garment:
2. the state of being worn, as on the person.
3. clothing or other articles for wearing; especially when fashionable or appropriate for a particular function (often used in combination):
4. gradual impairment, wasting, diminution, etc., as from use:
5. the quality of resisting deterioration with use; durability.

verb

1. past participle of wear.

Idioms

1. wear thin, to diminish; weaken: to become less appealing, interesting, tolerable, etc.:

adjective

1. diminished in value or usefulness through wear, use, handling, etc.:
2. wearied; exhausted.

Verb phrases

1. wear down, to reduce or impair by long wearing: to weary; tire: to prevail by persistence; overcome:
2. wear off, to diminish slowly or gradually or to diminish in effect; disappear:
3. wear out, to make or become unfit or useless through hard or extended use: to expend, consume, or remove, especially slowly or gradually. to exhaust, as by continued strain; weary:

verb (used with object)

1. to carry or have on the body or about the person as a covering, equipment, ornament, or the like:
2. to have or use on the person habitually:
3. to bear or have in one's aspect or appearance:
4. to cause (garments, linens, etc.) to deteriorate or change by wear:
5. to impair, deteriorate, or consume gradually by use or any continued process:
6. to waste or diminish gradually by rubbing, scraping, washing, etc.:
7. to make (a hole, channel, way, etc.) by such action.
8. to bring about or cause a specified condition in (a person or thing) by use, deterioration, or gradual change:
9. to weary; fatigue; exhaust:
10. to pass (time) gradually or tediously (usually followed by away or out):
11. Nautical. to bring (a vessel) on another tack by turning until the wind is on the stern.
12. British Dialect. to gather and herd (sheep or cattle) to a pen or pasture.

verb (used without object)

1. to undergo gradual impairment, diminution, reduction, etc., from wear, use, attrition, or other causes (often followed by away, down, out, or off).
2. to retain shape, color, usefulness, value, etc., under wear, use, or any continued strain:
3. (of time) to pass, especially slowly or tediously (often followed by on or away):
4. to have the quality of being easy or difficult to tolerate, especially after a relatively long association:
5. Nautical. (of a vessel) to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind.
6. Obsolete. to be commonly worn; to be in fashion.

Origin of worn

before 900; (v.) Middle English weren to have (clothes) on the body, waste, damage, suffer waste or damage, Old English werian; cognate with Old Norse verja, Gothic wasjan to clothe; (noun) l

Examples for worn

A worn couch sitting squarely before a wood veneer wall, accented by the head of a deer.

It was precisely on the pattern of that worn by the visionary Maid.

The carpeting is worn, the furniture is falling apart, and the electricity is out for most of the day.

He didn't see that she was perspiring, worn out by her struggle with the carpet.

Mrs. Kouachi works at a nursery and has worn the veil since she made the pilgrimage to Mecca in 2008.

There was a report that she had first worn it at her christening; the report originated with herself.

“The novelty of David Duke has worn off,” said Scalise then.

But they were an old race, and they were worn out by centuries of hard work.

It is also the one worn by Presidents Eisenhower, Truman, and George W. Bush.

She had changed the bedraggled frock for the green one she had worn the night before.