overworn
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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Where lines like “don’t give up; don’t stop believing; keep the faith” can transform from overworn platitudes into a chant of quiet confidence and inflate the listener’s heart like the Grinch on Christmas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025
But for British dramas fictional cops cannot get away from the cheaper and often overworn suits favoured by their non-fictional contemporaries.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 8, 2013
Two hours swinging up and down, then four hours sleep: and then ... the mind of the overworn first sentry sickens.
From Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry by A. Stanley Blicq
I was so chill, and overworn, and sad, To be a lady was the only joy I had.
From Modern British Poetry by Louis Untermeyer
For this wandering everlonger, evermore, Hath overworn me, And I know not on what shore I may rest from my despair.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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