outworn

English

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Verb

outworn

1. past participle of outwear

   My sister gave away her shoes from when she was little, having outworn them.

Adjective

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 out of date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.

Synonyms

• (out of date): antiquated, disused, outdated; see also Thesaurus:obsolete

Further reading

• “outworn”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• worn out, worn-out