outworn

outworn
/owt"wawrn", -wohrn"/, adj.
1. out-of-date, outmoded, or obsolete: outworn ideas; outworn methods.
2. worn-out, as clothes.
3. exhausted in strength or endurance, as persons.
v.
4. pp. of outwear.
[1555-65; OUT- + WORN]

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