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careworn
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Careworn \Care"worn`\, a. Worn or burdened with care; as, careworn look or face. [1913 Webster] ||
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. show the signs of long-term stresses.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young ...
Usage examples of careworn.
What compassion, what tenderness, what sensitiveness in the affecting picture of the mother Halictus, abandoned, deprived of her offspring, bewildered and lost, when the terrible spring fly has destroyed her house: bald, emaciated, shabby, careworn, already dogged by the small grey lizard!
With a suprising agility of her careworn body she pushed one of the chairs against her son causing him to trip and fall.
WIVES IN THE SERE I Never a careworn wife but shows, If a joy suffuse her, Something beautiful to those Patient to peruse her, Some one charm the world unknows Precious to a muser, Haply what, ere years were foes, Moved her mate to choose her.
The only thing I noted was that she had looked pale and careworn when I came in, and when I went out her cheeks were the colour of the rose.
He had to be on the far side of forty-five but he had a youthful skin and, out of his official surroundings, he displayed more enthusiasm than she supposed careworn or rank-conscious admirals usually did.
The following day, when O arrived at Sir Stephen's at two o'clock in answer to his summons, she found him looking older and his face careworn.