outworn

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Verb

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outworn

  1. past participle of outwear
    My sister gave away her shoes from when she was little, having outworn them.

Adjective

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outworn (comparative more outworn, superlative most outworn)

  1. no longer usable
  2. 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.
  3. out of date
    • 1986 December 21, F. Jay Deacon, “Emotionally-Laden Prejudice”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 23, page 4:
      Unitarian Universalists urge reflection upon outworn religious assumptions and propose a serious religious alternative that affirms reason, science, human intuition and lived experience as profoundly as it affirms ancient religious traditions.

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Further reading

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  • outworn”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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