forworn
adj/fə(ɹ)ˈwɔː(ɹ)n/ · /fɔː(ɹ)ˈwɔː(ɹ)n/
Etymology Past participle of forwear (“to wear out”), from Middle English forweren (“to wear out”), equivalent to for- + worn. Compare Middle English forwerd, forwered (“forworn”), Old English forwered, forwerod, forweren, forweoron, forworen (“worn out, decrepit”).
- A silly man, in simple weeds forworn1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Synonyms
- depleted