1. worn-out - Adjective
2. worn-out - Verb
3. worn-out - Adjective Satellite
Consumed, or rendered useless, by wearing; as, worn-out garments.
Source: Webster's dictionaryworn out
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish. Terry Southern
Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote. James Russell Lowell
Alone! - that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE! Edward Bulwer-Lytton
It has been estimated that even in the absence of net investment, the mere substitution of modern machinery for worn-out equipment in the United States would cause an annual productivity increase of approximately 1.5 percent. Paul A. Baran
There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place! David R. Brower
[Marxism-Leninism is] a worn-out dress that should be thrown away. Fang Lizhi