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We think the answer is "WORN" which means:

adjective
• • Affected by wear; damaged by long use
adjective satellite
• • Showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering
verb
• • To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
• • To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner.
• • To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
• • (with "it") to overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
• • To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce (some change) through attrition, exposure, or constant use.
• • To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.
• • To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
• • To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or desirable qualities under any continued strain or long period of time; sometimes said of a person, regarding the quality of being easy or difficult to tolerate.
• • (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") to cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue, or weariness near the point of an exhaustion of patience.
• • (of time) to pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
• • To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind. also written "ware". past: weared, or wore/worn.
• • To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
• • To defend; protect.
• • To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off; repel.
• • To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or place of safety.

An example sentence would be:

• • "The old man's face was lined with deep worn wrinkles."
• • "His worn clothes were evidence of his hard work."

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