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What does careworn mean?

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Adjective
  1. Showing the signs of long-term stress; tired and haggard due to prolonged worry.
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Yes, I recognised a large percentage of the faces in the crowd as my former classmates, a little more careworn now than in junior high.
Slim, round-shouldered, with a feint moustache, he looked careworn and world-weary from the moment he graduated to international cricket.
They spoke in a careworn fashion that made me give up hope that music and art might make a difference to anything.
In my eight months away she'd become careworn, picking nervously at her fingers as she spoke, palpably lacking the confidence she once had.
I am taken into another room and a careworn man in a reassuringly green smock and matching trousers comes in to inspect the thigh.
In their place were perms and dyes, Michelin waists, plump upper arms, and 40-something, careworn faces.

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