outworn
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
outworn
- past participle of outwear
- My sister gave away her shoes from when she was little, having outworn them.
Adjective[edit]
outworn (comparative more outworn, superlative most outworn)
- no longer usable
- worn out
- a. 1618, Sir Walter Raleigh, The 21st and Last Book of the Ocean, to Cynthia:
- Unlasting passion, soon outworn conceit,
Whereon I built, and on so dureless trust!
- 1933 January, Robert E[rvin] Howard, “The Scarlet Citadel”, in Weird Tales, volume 21, number 1, epigraph ("The Road of Kings"):
- Gleaming shell of an outworn lie; fable of Right divine—
You gained your crowns by heritage, but Blood was the price of mine.
- 1960 August, L. Hyland, “The Irish Scene”, in Trains Illustrated, page 467:
- Side by side with the dieselisation of C.I.E., the replacement of outworn carriages by modern steel stock was initiated.
- out of date
Synonyms[edit]
- (out of date): antiquated, disused, outdated; see also Thesaurus:obsolete
Further reading[edit]
- “outworn”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.