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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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