Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Usage examples of "played-out".
Lucy Marks was snipping the heads off played-out coneflowers as her husband maneuvered the Kubota in and out of a shed.
At the other end, a crew from Yamagata Industries was constructing a complex pumping station to remove the carbon dioxide emitted by the power station's stacks and store it deep underground, in the played-out seams of the coal bed that provided fuel for the generators.
Chance has taken more money out of played-out and abandoned mines than most gougers see in fifty lifetimes.
It reminded Chemayev of dilapidated hovels in the villages of his childhood, habitations humbled by weather and hard times into something lumpish, barely distinguishable from a mound of earth, a played-out vegetable plot in the back, rusted garden tools leaning against bowed steps, its thatched roof molting, sided with unpainted boards worn to a shit brown, and something ancient, howlingly mad with age and failure, peering out through two dark windows with cracked panes.