Overworn

Word OVERWORN
Character 8
Hyphenation o ver worn
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What do we mean by overworn?

Worn out or subdued by toil; worn out so as to be trite. past participle

Worn out adjective

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The word "overworn" in example sentences

We can supercharge our talk with n|om, and allow it to spring forth as a different kind of arrow that disrupts and disengages overworn habits of thinking. ❋ PhD Bradford Keeney (2010)

Her place was unkempt, smelled of overworn laundry and rotting dill. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I would like to reiterate my argument that the “Wasteland” cliche is a bit overworn in science fiction. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Daniel Kasman on Lights in the Dusk: "The strong emphasis on [Aki] Kaurismäki's staging places the plot at such a distance that the story and acting seem banal and overworn while the look is utterly refined." ❋ Unknown (2007)

Just after his days of wanting to be Huck Finn, complete with overworn overalls and a corncob pipe made for him by my grandfather, and just before his days as a break dancer, my brother, who celebrated his 31st birthday yesterday, was obsessed with The Outsiders. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I'm actually suggesting that they are (largely) incapable of thinking outside the box (to use a well-overworn phrase). ❋ Unknown (2006)

How many overworn quotations from Shakespeare suddenly leap into meaning and brightness when they are seen in their context! ❋ Unknown (2004)

Ans. This is that which is repeated “usque ad nauseam;” and were it not for variety of expressions, wherewith some men do abound, to adorn it, it would appear extremely beggarly and overworn. ❋ 1616-1683 (1966)

Two hours swinging up and down, then four hours sleep: and then ... the mind of the overworn first sentry sickens. ❋ A. Stanley Blicq (N/A)

'Behold me the overworn! me whom old age, exhausted and untrue, mocks with false dismay amid embattled kings! ❋ 70 BC-19 BC Virgil (N/A)

But thee, O mother, overworn old age, exhausted and untrue, frets with vain distress, and amid embattled kings mocks thy presage with false dismay. ❋ 70 BC-19 BC Virgil (N/A)

The rest was sweet indeed to his exhausted and overworn frame, and he did not go far away from his fire. ❋ James De Mille (N/A)

He was usually in mischief when not asleep, and his overworn mother and somewhat shiftless and careless father were so taken up with the other children and with family and pastoral cares, that "Dodd" grew up by himself, as so many children do; more is the pity. ❋ William Hawley Smith (N/A)

Strong and masculine in all its lines, the building throughout is a consistent interpretation of the artistic faith of the architects, who have been bold enough to break with overworn conventions in the design and have made it peculiarly an expression, in its whole conception as well as in its finest details, of a distinctly American spirit. ❋ Wilfred Shaw (N/A)

No delay with dinner; no badly-cooked dishes; no stale or sour bread; no timid, overworn wife trembling for the result of new experiments in housekeeping. ❋ James De Mille (N/A)

From mothers of large families, overworn with house-work themselves, or, still worse, fretted by the impossibility of keeping a home comfortable, aided only by unwilling and half-trained servants, girls inherit a depressed and morbid tendency to call life "hard." ❋ Anna Callender Brackett (N/A)

In the same play, great sport is made of this word, until the Fool himself at last gets weary of it, when he says (act iii.sc. i): -- 'You are out of my welkin -- I might say _element_, but the word is overworn.' ❋ Jacob Feis (N/A)

Tormented and tortured by such feelings as these, her weary, overworn frame sank once more, and the sufferings of Frankfort were renewed at ❋ James De Mille (N/A)

He saw that the woman who had saved his life at the risk of her own, who had dropped down senseless at his bedside, overworn with duties self-imposed through love for him -- the woman who had overwhelmed him with obligations of gratitude -- could also dazzle him with her intellectual brilliancy, and surpass him in familiarity with the greatest geniuses of modern times. ❋ James De Mille (N/A)

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