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Meanings of careworn in English

Showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering.

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        Usage of careworn in English
        1
        Many great players enjoy their work; Stokes usually looks almost comically careworn.
        The Guardian
        2
        Grey; and the face, tanned even in the shaven jaws, was careworn.
        The Grey Cloak
        3
        The poet was in slumber, and his face looked careworn in repose.
        The Grey Cloak
        4
        People look careworn to me in America; they are spare and pallid.
        Children of the Market Place
        5
        He seemed careworn, not as young as he had been earlier-worndown.
        Halo Primordium
        6
        Outside, the clouds had pulled apart and a careworn light filtered through.
        The king of lies
        7
        The worker of the nineteenth century stands a sad and careworn man.
        Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader / B...
        8
        When Mrs. Townsley entered the parlor her face was pale and careworn.
        A Lover in Homespun / And Other Stories
        9
        He was becoming careworn in face, thin of figure, sleepless of habit.
        The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 09: 1564-65
        10
        He was not the bronzed and careworn man you see him now.
        Adèle Dubois / A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Bru...
        11
        It is Hayoue, Hayoue as emaciated and careworn as his brother Zashue.
        The Delight Makers
        12
        Ratcliffe looked at her a moment with a troubled and careworn face.
        Democracy, an American novel
        13
        He was an oldish man over sixty, dressed in mourning, and careworn.
        The Log of a Noncombatant
        14
        His surroundings were poor, and his fine face was haggard and careworn.
        The Flamingo Feather
        15
        She was a little careworn old woman of sixty with white hair.
        Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People
        16
        I should not have known you, you look so thin and careworn.
        Roger Willoughby: A Story of the Times of Benbow
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