单词 | outworn |
释义 | outwornadj. 1. Wasted, destroyed, or obliterated by or as by wear, or by the action of time; spec. (of clothes) worn out (now rare). Also figurative (of a belief, custom, institution, etc.): obsolete, out of date. Cf. worn-out adj. 1, 3. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > non-use > [adjective] > fallen out of use or obsolete oldOE outworna1522 stale1550 obsolete1579 overgone1581 overworn1603 disused1611 exolete1611 absoletea1613 worn-out1612 outdated1616 lapsed1667 exploded1709 supersededa1831 rinky-dink1913 a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) viii. viii. 123 The dasyt blude gane far by the hait rage, Or than the owtworn dait and mony ȝeris..Envyis that I suld ioys or bruke empyre. 1565 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. (1611) 362 To seek to procure vs enuie only with stale and outworne Lies. 1597 C. Middleton Famous Hist. Chinon iv. 35 A mightie bigge stone.., where in olde almost outworne letters, were these lines ingrauen. 1624 R. Sanderson Serm. I. 226 In old marbles and coins and out-worn inscriptions. a1657 W. Mure Hist. Rowallane in Wks. (1898) II. 237 The reviveing of the neere expyred & almost outworne knowledge of [etc.]. 1679 S. Woodford Paraphr. upon Canticles 63 Both small and great there undistinguisht be, Undisturb'd by outworn Authority. 1715 J. Browne & W. Oldisworth State Tracts II. 321 Some of these spots were fresh, some half outworn. 1806 W. Wordsworth World is too much with Us in Misc. Sonnets 10 I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn. 1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 51 The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn. 1897 M. Creighton Hist. Papacy VI. vi. i. 15 The out-worn ideals of feudalism. 1928 F. C. Cornford Different Days 45 This poor body like an outworn glove. 1935 H. A. L. Fisher Europe 127 [The eastern Roman Empire] persisted through every storm, renouncing nothing which had once been Roman, cherishing hopeless claims and outworn pretensions. 1987 R. Manning Corridor of Mirrors xiv. 153 Many old intolerances based upon outworn moral and social codes were being swept away. 2. Of a living being, faculty, etc.: exhausted as to physical vigour or vitality; spent. Cf. worn-out adj. 2. Chiefly poetic. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective] wearyc825 asadc1306 ateyntc1325 attaintc1325 recrayed1340 methefula1350 for-wearya1375 matea1375 taintc1380 heavy1382 fortireda1400 methefula1400 afoundered?a1425 tewedc1440 travailedc1440 wearisomec1460 fatigate1471 defatigatec1487 tired1488 recreant1490 yolden?1507 fulyeit?a1513 traiked?a1513 tavert1535 wearied1538 fatigated1552 awearya1555 forwearied1562 overtired1567 spenta1568 done1575 awearied1577 stank1579 languishinga1586 bankrupt?1589 fordone1590 spent1591 overwearied1592 overworn1592 outworn1597 half-dead1601 back-broken1603 tiry1611 defatigated1612 dog-wearya1616 overweary1617 exhaust1621 worn-out1639 embossed1651 outspent1652 exhausted1667 beaten1681 bejaded1687 harassed1693 jaded1693 lassate1694 defeata1732 beat out1758 fagged1764 dog-tired1770 fessive1773 done-up1784 forjeskit1786 ramfeezled1786 done-over1789 fatigued1791 forfoughten1794 worn-up1812 dead1813 out-burnta1821 prostrate1820 dead beat1822 told out1822 bone-tireda1825 traiky1825 overfatigued1834 outwearied1837 done like (a) dinner1838 magged1839 used up1839 tuckered outc1840 drained1855 floored1857 weariful1862 wappered1868 bushed1870 bezzled1875 dead-beaten1875 down1885 tucked up1891 ready (or fit) to drop1892 buggered-up1893 ground-down1897 played1897 veal-bled1899 stove-up1901 trachled1910 ragged1912 beat up1914 done in1917 whacked1919 washy1922 pooped1928 shattered1930 punchy1932 shagged1932 shot1939 whipped1940 buggered1942 flaked (out)1942 fucked1949 sold-out1958 wiped1958 burnt out1959 wrung out1962 juiced1965 hanging1971 zonked1972 maxed1978 raddled1978 zoned1980 cream crackered1983 the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > worn out perusedc1475 withered1488 laboured1535 outworn1597 worn-out1612 effete1662 frazzled1872 jacked-up1874 crocky1906 bummed1907 rim-racked1916 shot1933 beaten-up1941 beat-up1946 clapped1946 1597 J. Howson Serm. 24 Dec. 31 A spent and outworne life. c1600 Timon (1980) iii. i. 41 Thou olde, outworne worme eaten animal. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 580 Better at home lie bed-rid,..Inglorious, unimploy'd, with age out-worn . View more context for this quotation 1817 Ld. Byron Lament Tasso viii The Powers of Evil can..prevail Against the outworn creature they assail. 1884 J. Parker Apostolic Life III. 273 We pray for the..sated and outworn man. 1932 T. E. Lawrence tr. Homer Odyssey xxiv When Odysseus knew for his father this out-worn old man, lined with heart-sickness, he paused beneath a tall pear-tree to drop a tear. a1944 J. P. Bishop Coll. Poems (1975) v. 116 When the dissipation of the night is past, Hour of the outcast and the outworn whore. 1953 R. Gittings Coll. Poems (1976) 31 He was old, outworn, and tired, past the end of his day. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1522 |
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