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
- Standing in queues is not easy for us old fogeys with worn-out joints.
- Brethren of St. Francis and their clients, which still roughen the pavement of Santa Croce at Florence, and recall the varnished polychrome decoration of those Greek monuments in connexion with the worn-out blazonry of the funeral brasses of England and Flanders. Greek Studies: a Series of Essays
- Dig up and store tender bulbs from your summer garden, and cut back the worn-out perennials and biennials.
- Even a very rich and hearty luncheon, which her maid had provided, was gormandized rather than enjoyed, so tempting did her couch look to the worn-out damsel. Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter
- Where can you offload your clunky old computer or worn-out armchair? Times, Sunday Times
- Then there was the suit, which he wore well for a guy who lived in battered jeans and worn-out shirts.
- The lower, yet still an estimable class, take up with worn-out Symbols of the Godlike; keep trimming and trucking between these and Hypocrisy, purblindly enough, miserably enough. Paras. 40-58
- Worn-out truck tyres stacked in heaps announce the arrival in the village of the industrial era.
- Finally, as the evening cooled, Graham took himself up to the loft to replace the worn-out ballcock float and valve that's been giving us a problem for some time.
- As the teenagers tentatively waded into the brown muck, a skinny, worn-out alcoholic teetered over from his broken-down pickup.
