outworn

[ out-wawrn, -wohrn ]
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adjective
  1. out-of-date, outmoded, or obsolete: outworn ideas; outworn methods.

  2. worn-out, as clothes.

  1. exhausted in strength or endurance, as persons.

verb
  1. past participle of outwear.

Origin of outworn

1
First recorded in 1555–65; out- + worn

Other words from outworn

  • un·out·worn, adjective

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How to use outworn in a sentence

  • Bullinger and Gualterus in particular were outworn by the pertinacious English Puritans who visited them.

British Dictionary definitions for outworn

outworn

/ (ˈaʊtwɔːn, ˌaʊtˈwɔːn) /


adjective
  1. no longer accepted, used, believed, etc; obsolete or outmoded

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