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careworn
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Definition:showing the effects of worry
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her care-worn face unconsciously expressed not gladness, but wonder.
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During the evening Charles seemed to her careworn. Emma watched him with a look of anguish, fancying she saw an accusation in every line of his face.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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Miss Miller was more ordinary; ruddy in complexion, though of a careworn countenance;
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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If it wasn't mice, it was dripping taps., and if it wasn't dripping taps, it was funny smells. Very wearing. No wonder the poor blighter had that careworn look.
P. G. Wodehouse. The Girl in Blue, p.145 (1971)
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