worn-out

worn-out (comparative more worn-out, superlative most worn-out)

1. Damaged due to hard or continued use or exposure until no longer useful or effective.

   There is no challenge in fighting a worn-out old man.

   He still wears his old worn-out shoes.

   You can barely read the worn-out logo on those shoes.

   • 1888, Donn Piatt, “The Sales-Lady of the City”, in The Lone Grave of the Shenandoah and Other Tales, Chicago, Ill., […]: Belford, Clarke & Co., →OCLC, page 91:

     Her feet were frosted from exposure, in her old worn-out shoes, and it was only a question of time as to when she would succumb and be carried to the hospital.

2. Exhausted or fatigued from exertion.

   The worn-out soccer players lined up to congratulate the other team.

• (damaged due to use): outworn; See also Thesaurus:deteriorated
• (exhausted from exertion): tired: See also Thesaurus:fatigued

• wear
• wear away
• wear down
• wear off
• wear out
• wear thin
• outworn

• outworn