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worn-down
adjective as in haggard
adjective as in hollow-eyed
adjective as in jaded
adjective as in tired out
adjective as in tuckered
adjective as in wearied
adjective as in weariful
adjective as in weather-beaten
Weak matches
adjective as in worn
Strong matches
adjective as in worn/worn-out
Weak matches
- beat
- burned out
- bushed
- busted
- clichéd
- consumed
- depleted
- destroyed
- deteriorated
- drained
- drawn
- effete
- exhausted
- fatigued
- frayed
- gone
- hackneyed
- had it
- haggard
- jaded
- kaput
- knocked out
- old
- out of gas
- overused
- overworked
- pinched
- played-out
- pooped
- ragged
- ruined
- shabby
- shot
- spent
- stale
- tattered
- the worse for wear
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired out
- totaled
- used-up
- useless
- wearied
- weary
- well-worn
- wiped-out
- wrung out
Example Sentences
Third class had hard wooden benches, worn down from decades of Berliners sitting on them.
Worn down by the rigors of slavery, the men lost their desire to procreate.
That is, the chill factor on open and collective self-critique that comes from decades of being worn down by prejudice.
He even got his Corvette back, albeit several months after the raid and, he says, with the tires worn down.
It was because he was worn down, and his health was deteriorating, and it was time.
His conception of perfect conduct is industrious persistence along the worn-down, well-marked grooves of the great recorded days.
Lee's men were melting away, worn down by hard marching and fighting, and discouraged by defeat and disaster.
Ben moved his great feet, tearing up a long splinter from a broken board with his worn-down heel.
The soft sand gives way by the weight of the animal, and the crust of the hoof is not worn down.
Where the hard rock has been worn down into hollows, the falling tide leaves a pool of still, clear water.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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