Worn

Definition: Worn

Worn

Adjective

1. Affected by wear; damaged by long use; "worn threads on the screw"; "a worn suit"; "the worn pockets on the jacket".

2. Showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "worn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Worn

Deterioration

Decayed; Verb: moth-eaten, worm-eaten; mildewed, rusty, moldy, spotted, seedy, time-worn, moss-grown; discolored; effete, wasted, crumbling, moldering, rotten, cankered, blighted, tainted; depraved; (vicious); decrepid, decrepit; broke, busted, broken, out of commission, hors de combat, out of action, broken down; done, done for, done up; worn out, used up, finished; beyond saving, fit for the dust hole, fit for the wastepaper basket, past work; (useless).

Adjective: unimproved; (improve; ); deteriorated; Verb: altered, altered for the worse; injured; Verb: sprung; withering, spoiling; Verb: on the wane, on the decline; tabid; degenerate; marescent; worse; the worse for, all the worse for; out of repair, out of tune; imperfect; the worse for wear; battered; weathered, weather-beaten; stale, passe, shaken, dilapidated, frayed, faded, wilted, shabby, secondhand, threadbare; worn, worn to a thread, worn to a shadow, worn to the stump, worn to rags; reduced, reduced to a skeleton; far gone; tacky.

Fatigue

Worn, worn out; battered,worn, worn out; battered, shattered, pulled down, seedy, altered.

Narrowness Thinness

Emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt, macilent; lank, lanky; weedy, skinny; scrawny slinky; starved, starveling; herring gutted; worn to a shadow, lean as a rake; thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer; hatchet-faced; lantern-jawed.

Oldness

Antiquated, of other times, rococo, of the old school, after-age, obsolete; out of date, out of fashion, out of it; stale, old-fashioned, behind the age; old-world; exploded; gone out, gone by; passe, run out; senile; time worn; crumbling; (deteriorated); secondhand.

Weakness

Languid, poor, infirm; faint, faintish; sickly; (disease); dull, slack, evanid, spent, short-winded, effete; weather-beaten; decayed, rotten, worn, seedy, languishing, wasted, washy, laid low, pulled down, the worse for wear.

Weariness

Weary, tired; Verb: drowsy; (sleepy); uninterested, flagging, used up, worn out, blase, life-weary, weary of life; sick of.

Crosswords: Worn

God created little furry animals to be worn. (S1m0ne; writing credit: Andrew Niccol)

Yes, but very comforting when worn next to the skin (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco)

Gotta be worn at all times (The Bad News Bears; writing credit: Bill Lancaster)

Just between us, I'd already worn Cerberus down by the time the little guy jumped in. (Kingdom Hearts; writing credit: Billy Gallo; Robert Gillings)

Ah, come on. You've worn tighter things than that (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

When your shoes worn through and there's a rumble in your tummy (Buffalo Stance; performing artist: Neneh Cherry)

In worn out shoes, (Mr. Bojangles; performing artist: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)

Old worn out suit and shoes, I don't pay no union dues (KING OF THE ROAD; performing artist: Roger Miller)

To fix the worn out wire (One Season; performing artist: The Roches)

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Well Worn Daffy (1965)

A Worn Path (1994)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The World Market for Rags and Worn Textile Articles Including Clothing: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Casebook: A Worn Path (reference)

• Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path": A Study Guide from Gale's "Short Stories for Students" [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• From Worn to Wonderful: A Step-By-Step Guide to Fashion Doll Restoration (reference)

• How the West Was Worn (reference)

• Sheriffs' Insignia of the United States: A Guide to the Uniform Emblems Worn by the Nation's Sheriffs (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Past Worn Searching (reference)

• Walk the Worn out Floor (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Protective body suites worn in a Biosafety Level 4 laboratory area, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Credit: CDC.

This 20 year old male wore a jersey previously worn by a friend who had been vaccinated. He inoculated himself in 36 places on his shoulder and face. Credit: CDC.

Worn bindings of land transfer documents to be automated through the GLO Records Automation Project. Credit: Cathy Rodine.

Prepares to take off from USS Charger (CVE-30) during training operations in the Chesapeake Bay area, 8 May 1944. Another FM-2 is passing overhead with its tail hook down, apparently having received a "wave-off" due to the carrier's fouled flight deck. Note the light Atlantic area paint schemes worn by these planes. Credit: NAVY.

"Just as happy after coaling": Crewmen clowning for the camera after coaling ship, circa 1913. Photographed by Sargent. Note coal dust on nearly everyone, and goggles worn by a few. Credit: NAVY.

Dazed and worn, bending over his cobbling work. Credit: Library of Congress.

In his time he has worn varied disguises. Credit: Library of Congress.

Why not? this is what Alexander Hamilton would have worn!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Miss Beatrice Hudson in jousting boot, worn by King Henry IV of France, holding two shoes at the annual convention of the National Boot and Shoe Manufacturing Association at the Hotel Commodore, New York City. Credit: Library of Congress.

Campaign badge(?) of Republican party, to be worn to the polls, showing Theodore Roosevelt on horseback, carrying U.S. flag, with banner "stalwart Republicanism to the front"; and head-and-shoulders portrait of John Weaver, candidate for mayor of Philadel. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But I do flatter myself, my dear Jane, that my influence is not entirely worn out.

He was a fine old man, but looked sadly ill and worn.

But the object that most drew my attention, in the mysterious package, was a certain affair of fine red cloth, much worn and faded

They have traditions of the last clothes worn by them all.

He could remember only that she had worn a shawl about her head like a cowl and that her dark eyes had invited and unnerved him.

At Needles he drove into a service station, checked the worn tires for air, checked the spares tied to the back

However that may be, I was struck by the peculiar toughness of the steel which bore so many violent blows without being worn out.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Gloves should be worn when disinfecting and cleaning up rodent excreta. (references)

A pouch is worn over the opening to collect waste, and the patient empties the pouch as needed. (references)

Smoking and wearing dentures (especially when they are worn constantly) can also lead to fungal infection. (references)

Business

Additionally, costume jewelry brooches are frequently worn to match clothing and accessories. (references)

Sixty-two percent buy new bed sheets only when the ones they use have worn out, 42 percent change the bed sheets only once a month. (references)

Occasionally, spares are used to replace worn out parts, but they are usually used to restore the vehicle to its original appearance after a crash or some other accident. (references)

Civil Liberties

Netherlands

The courts and the Equal Opportunity Committee have addressed repeatedly the issue of whether headscarves can be worn by Muslim women and girls. (references)

Tunisia

The Government forbids the wearing of the hijab (traditional headscarves worn by Islamist and Islamic fundamentalist women) in government offices. (references)

Economic History

Bulgaria

For example, an estimated 10,000 switches are worn. (references)

Minorities

Bhutan

Measures included a requirement that national dress be worn for official occasions and as a school uniform, the teaching of Dzongkha as a second language in all schools, and an end to instruction in Nepali as a second language During the mid- and late 1980's, citizenship became a highly contentious matter. (references)

Travel

Kazakhstan

Business attire is worn. (references)

Honduras

Jewelry should not be worn in downtown or isolated areas. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Worn

Expressions using "worn": be worn out ♦ become worn out ♦ get worn out ♦ look worn ♦ thin and worn ♦ time worn ♦ to tease cloth with worn fuller thistles ♦ well worn ♦ woolen pelerine worn by shepherds ♦ worn into holes ♦ worn land ♦ worn out ♦ worn to a frazzle ♦ worn with care. Additional references.

Beginning with "worn": worn-down, worn-in, worn-lipped, worn-looking, worn-out, worn-out shoe.

Ending with "worn": time-worn, weather-worn, well-worn, work-worn.

Containing "worn": a well-worn joke, well-worn-looking.

Afrikaans

bekaf (exhausted, tired, tired out, worn out). (various references)

Albanian

i veshur (clad, clothed, dressed, used, vestured). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مهترئ (shabby, worn out), ‏ملبوس, ‏مرهق (arduous, burdened, dog tired, exacting, exhausted, exhausting, fatigued, fatiguing, grueling, laborious, onerous, operose, oppressed, oppressive, overtaxed, overtired, overworked, run down, strained, strenuous, stressed, tired, tiring, toil-worn, trying, wearing, wearisome, weary, worn out), ‏لبس (array, attire, clothe, dress, get dressed, panel, robe, tog, vest, wear, wore), ‏رث (dowdy, down, dungy, heel, inherit, mangy, outworn, seedy, shabby, slipshod, threadbare, worn out), ‏بال (decomposed, decrepit, fossil, mangy, musty, old fashioned, outmoded, outworn, rotten, shabby, stale, threadbare, tired, trite, well worn, worn out). (various references)

Bulgarian 

похабен (blunt, gone to waste, old, shabby), повяхнал (drooping, faded, withered). (various references)

Chinese 

佩带 (Girded, Girding, Girt, Wearing). (various references)

Czech

příè.min. od wear. (various references)

Danish

snekke (auger, feed screw, screw, worm). (various references)

Dutch

versleten (wear-out), op (above, according as, according to, as, at, by, exhausted, for, from, in, inside, into, on, out of, owing to, per, spent, through, to, toward, towards, up, uphill, upon, upwards, used up, within, write down). (various references)

Esperanto

eluzita. (various references)

Faeroese

deyðgivin (exhausted, tired out, worn out). (various references)

Farsi 

اسم مفعول فعلraew . (various references)

Finnish

lopen väsynyt (dead beat, dead tired, tired out, worn out), elinkaarensa huipun ohittanut (decrepit, worn out), ikäloppu (decrepit, worn with years), kengät ovat lintassa (the shoes are worn down one side), kenkäraja (worn-out shoe), kulua (be used up, be worn, elapse, go by, pass, wear), kulua loppuun (become worn out, wear out), kulua riekaleiksi (be worn to rags), elähtänyt (passé, past one's prime, worn-out), lopen kulunut (hackneyed, worn out), ylikehittynyt (decrepit, worn out), ohueksi kulunut (worn thin), passé (decrepit, worn out), rikki (broken, in pieces, sulfur, sulphur, worn out, worn through), risainen (frayed, ragged, tattered, worn out), riutunut (worn with age), uupunut (exhausted, fatigued, tired, weary, worn out), väsynyt (exhausted, fatigued, languid, tired, tired out, weary), ylenmääräisen työn rasittama (worn out with overwork), kulunut (hackneyed, shabby, stale, threadbare, well-worn, worn-out). (various references)

French

vis sans fin (worm, worm-type conveyor), usagé (well worn), usé (time worn, worn out), fourbu (worn out), fatigué, éreinté, épuisé (worn out), éculé. (various references)

Frisian

ûngedien (exhausted, tired out, worn out), ôfseage (hackneyed, hard-worked, stale, trite, worn-out). (various references)

German

abgetragen (outworn, shabby, well worn, worn out). (various references)

Greek 

κοχλίας (auger, bolt, cochlea, threaded work), μετοχή του wear, χαλασμένοσ (spoilt, vitiated), φορεμένοσ, φθαρμένος (damaged, spent), ατέρμων κοχλίας (worm), ατέρμων τροχός, ατέρμων (worm). (various references)

Hebrew 

ממורט (polished, shabby), משומש (second hand, secondhand, used), שחוק (crushed, derision, ground, laughter, mockery, pounded, ragged, tacky, tattered). (various references)

Hungarian

kopott (aged, dilapidated, dingy, ragged, rinky-dink, rubbed, rusty, scuffed, seedy, shabby, threadbare, to be out at elbows, to be out at heels, worn out). (various references)

Indonesian

usang (effete, out of date, worn out), terauskan (be worn down, be worn out), rongsokan (worn-out articles, wreckage), rongsok (damaged, worn-out), lecek (disheveled, locks, worn (of latches), butut (bad, ugly, worn-out), buruk (bad, corrupt, decayed, dissonant, foul, nasty, old, putrid, ugly, worn out), aus (threadbare, worn out, worndown). (various references)

Italian

vite (grapevine, screw, vine), usato (in use, old, second hand, used, uses), sfinito (exhausted, gone, tired, tired out, worn out), sciupato, scalcinato (down at heel), portato (brought), logoro (effete, exhausted, jaded, outworn, ragged, ruined, shabby, threadbare, well worn, worn out), indebolito (strained), esausto (exhausted, outworn, tired, tired out, worn out). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

差し前 (sword worn at one's side), 死に装束 (burial clothes, clothes worn to commit suicide), 平生着 (usually worn), 御高祖頭巾 , 弊衣 (shabby clothes, worn out clothes), 弊履 (worn-out sandals), ぼりぼり食べる (crumbling, profitable, to eat with a munching or crunching sound, worn out), 弱り果てる (to be at a loss, to be exhausted, to be helpless, to be worn out), 剥げる (to be worn off, to come off, to discolor, to fade), 合い着 (between-season wear, clothes worn in spring or autumn), ぷりぷり怒る (angrily, be flurried, bending, completely exhausted, in a huff, in an angry mood, in anger, loss of strength, to be exhausted, to be in a huff, to be worn out, to become perverse, to get angry, to lose heart, to stutter), 手擦れ (becoming worn or soiled with handling, being old-fashioned), ばい菌 (a sure thing, abruptly, bacteria, be dry, disconnected, disperse, divorced, flop, germ, in drops, in pieces, loose, only, perfectly, plump, properly, right on the mark, rustle, rustling, scattered, suddenly, to be exhausted, to be worn out, to expose, to kill, to lay open, to murder, to take to pieces, unexpectedly, with a bang, with a clash, with a thud), 履き古し (worn-out shoes, worn-out socks), コルク抜き (bodice of a woman's dress, colchicine, Colt, corkscrew, cornet, correspondent, corsage, corset, cortisone, kolkhoz, Kolmogorov, small bouquet worn by a woman), ココ椰子 (bodice of a woman's dress, coconut palm, corsage, small bouquet worn by a woman), カタン糸 (a couple, beauty parlour, cloth band worn around hair, clothes made from jersey cloth, cotton, coupling sugar, cup, cupboard, cupcake, cut, cut glass, cutlet, cutoff, cutter, cutter shirt, cutter shoes, cutting, kappa, raincoat), よそ行き (according to, appears like, bell sounding, bitter gourd, company manners, from, going out, of all things, one's best clothes, out of, seedy, shabby, since, than, to be, to come, to go, tottering, totteringly, unsteady on its feet, weak from old age, with tottering steps, worn-out, wrinkled-up), へばり付く (bungler, clumsy, drunk, greenhorn, poor hand, to be exhausted, to be worn out, to cling to, untrustworthy), 下田 (worn-out rice land), 合着 (between-season wear, clothes worn in spring or autumn), 剥 (be worn off, come off, discolor, fade, peel off), 痩せ衰える (to become emaciated, to grow thin and worn out), 腰の物 (sword worn at the waist), 腰布団 (cushion worn round the waist for warmth), 衰残 (emaciated, worn out), 舞楽面 (mask worn by a bugaku dancer), 窶れる (to be worn out), 疲れた (worn-out), 着崩れ (worn out of shape), 牟子 (cap worn by masked dancer), 煎餅布団 (bedding worn flat and hard by usage), 旧衣 (worn-out clothes), 結い綿 (traditional hairstyle worn by unmarried women), 打ち掛け (long garment worn over kimono), 祭服 (vestments worn by priests and attendants during a festival), お高祖頭巾 , 半ケツ , 圭璧 (ritual jades worn by feudal lords in ancient China), ラム酒 (lame, laminated ski, LAN, Land Cruiser, Langerhans, language, language laboratory, language processor, lariat, lauan, LL, lullaby, lung, rally, Ralph Lauren, rank, ranking, rum, run, wraparound retaining straps worn with the old ski cable bindings), 指貫 (thimble, type of hakama worn in ancient times), 所帯やつれ (worn haggard by household cares), 手沢 (worn or soiled with handling), 胸高 (obi worn high on the waist), 留袖 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

へばる (to be exhausted, to be worn out), むなだか (obi worn high on the waist), ゆいわた (traditional hairstyle worn by unmarried women), カチューシャ (cloth band worn around hair), やつれる (to be worn out), やせおとろえる (to become emaciated, to grow thin and worn out), よれよれ (seedy, shabby, worn-out, wrinkled-up), よわりはてる (to be at a loss, to be exhausted, to be helpless, to be worn out), げでん (leaving the palace, worn-out rice land), てずれ (becoming worn or soiled with handling, being old-fashioned), へたばる (to be exhausted, to be worn out), あいぎ (between-season wear, clothes worn in spring or autumn, clothesfor spring or autumn, spring and autumn wear), へいぜいぎ (usually worn), へいい (easy, military power, plain, shabby clothes, simple, worn out clothes), へいり (worn-out sandals), はきふるし (worn-out shoes, worn-out socks), はんケツ, はげる (to be worn off, to come off, to discolor, to fade, to lose hair), はく (be worn off, chief official, come off, command esteem, commanding esteem, count, counter for nights of a stay, discolor, doctor, earl, eldest brother, exhibition, exposition, fade, fair, gain, gaining, oak, peel off, Ph.D., receive, receiving, to breathe, to brush, to disgorge, to gather up, to put on, to sweep, to tell, to vomit, to wear, uncle, win acclaim, winning acclaim), とめそで (tomesode, woman's ceremonial kimono), けいへき (ritual jades worn by feudal lords in ancient China), さしぬき (type of hakama worn in ancient times), おこそずきん, ラングリメン (wraparound retaining straps worn with the old ski cable bindings), きくずれ (worn out of shape), しにしょうぞく (burial clothes, clothes worn to commit suicide), しゅたく (worn or soiled with handling), きゅうい (peace, stuff, tranquility, worn-out clothes), しょたいやつれ (worn haggard by household cares), ぼうし (a certain publication, cap worn by masked dancer, certain person, check, dead child, eye, hat, looking aside, looking from the side, one's late elder sister, prevention, pupil, spinning, spun cotton, unnamed person), コサージュ (bodice of a woman's dress, corsage, small bouquet worn by a woman), さしまえ (sword worn at one's side), コルサージュ (bodice of a woman's dress, corsage, small bouquet worn by a woman), さいふく (priestly vestments, vestments worn by priests and attendants during a festival), うちかけ (long garment worn over kimono, long outer robe), ぶがくめん (mask worn by a bugaku dancer), ばてる (to be exhausted, to be worn out), つかれた (worn-out), せんべいぶとん (bedding worn flat and hard by usage, hard bed, thin bedding), こしぶとん (cushion worn round the waist for warmth), こしのもの (sword worn at the waist), すいざん (emaciated, worn out), ぼろぼろ (crumbling, worn out). (various references)

Korean 

착용하는. (various references)

Manx

shenn (aged, ancient, antiquarian, archaic, auld, consecrated, elderly, ex, former, inveterate, long-standing, old, olden, old-established, senile, stale, time-fusty, veteran, vintage), ceaut (bygone; effete; thrown, jaded, launched, spent). (various references)

Pig Latin

ornway.(various references)

Portuguese

usado (old, second-hand, trite, used, well-worn), parafuso sem-fim (auger, crop auger, feed auger, header auger), desgastado (outworn). (various references)

Romanian

purtat (obsolete, shabby, used), participiu trecut de la wear. (various references)

Russian 

от wear (wore), носить;изнашивать поношенный. (various references)

Scottish

rachdan (a tartan plaid worn mantle-wise), earasaid (a square of tartan worn over the shoulders by females and fastened by a brooch). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pohaban (battered, dingy, frayed, napless, outworn, shabby, threadbare, worn out), particip proš. od wear, iznošen (outworn, slipshod, threadbare, well worn, worn out, worn-down), izlizan (napless), iscrpljen (dead beat, exhausted, played out, washed out, wasted, weary, work-worn, worn out). (various references)

Spanish

gastado (hackneyed, old, outworn, shot, spent, threadbare, trite, used, wasted, worn out), usado (napless, old, ole, secondhand, used, well worn). (various references)

Swedish

nött (trite, well worn), avtärd (emaciated, peaked, peaky). (various references)

Turkish

yorgun (all in, all out, bushed, done, drawn, effete, forworn, jaded, languorous, off, pooped, pooped out, run down, spent, stale, tired, toilworn, tuckered out, used up, wan, washed out, weary, whacked, worn out, worn to a frazzle), yıpranmış (battered, detrited, distressed, out, timeworn, worn out), köhne (effete, fossil, fusty, musty, old, ramshackle, ratty, rickety, tumbledown), eskimiş (dated, decrepit, detrited, effete, moss-grown, obsolescent, old, out, outworn, rusty, shiny, stale, superannuated, timeworn, well worn, worm-eaten, worn out), bitkin (all in, all out, beat, broken down, bushed, dead beat, dog tired, drained, drawn, drawn out, drooping, effete, exhausted, faint, forworn, haggard, jaded, knackered, languorous, overdone, played out, pooped, pooped out, prostrate, run down, spent, stale, tired, tired to death, toilworn, tuckered out, used up, washed out, weakly, weary, whacked, wonky, worn out, worn to a frazzle, wretched, zonked), bitap (exhausted, pooped out, worn out), bayat (corny, cut and dried, dated, detrited, not fresh, old, stale, threadbare, trite, twice-told, worn out), çok giyilmiş. (various references)

Turkmen 

leji зykmak (become fatigued, become worn out), kцnelmek (be worn out, wear out). (various references)

Ukrainian

шаблонний (characterless, ready made, stage, stereotyped, worn out), виснажений (all in, atrophic, atrophous, attenuate, attenuated, barren, beat, bedrid, cachectic, crocked, effete, emaciate, emaciated, exhausted, hidebound, impoverished, jaded, outspent, outworn, overcome, overdriven, overworn, perished, played out, sapless, spent, wan, washed out, washed up, weariful, whipped-up, worn out), зношений (bare, decrepit, moth-eaten, old, ole, outworn, overworn, played out, shot), банальний (banal, commonplace, hack, hackneyed, humdrum, obvious, platitudinous, quotidian, trite), поношений (bare, frayed, mangy, napless, old, ole, ratty, reach-me-down, seedy, sere, time worn, well worn). (various references)

adtrita, adtriti, adtritis, adtritum, adtritus, trita, tritam, tritus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "worn": wornness, wornnesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "worn": careworn, footworn, foresworn, foreworn, forsworn, forworn, outsworn, outworn, overworn, shopworn, sworn, timeworn, toilworn, unsworn, unworn, warworn, waterworn, wayworn, weatherworn. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Worn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eorn, jorn, warna, Wern, wirn, woan, woen, woin, wonn, wonp, woor, wor, wora, woran, Worb, worc, worf, worg, worl, worna, worne, worns, wornt, worny, woro, worp, worq, Worrr, worx, wown, wro, wroc, wron, wrone, wur, wurc, wurz. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: nor, now, own, row, won.

-2 letters: no, on, or, ow, wo.

+1 letter: brown, crown, drown, frown, grown, owner, rewon, rowan, rowen, sworn, wrong.

+2 letters: browns, browny, crowns, downer, drownd, drowns, erenow, frowns, knower, narrow, nonwar, onward, owners, pawnor, renown, resown, rowans, rowens, rowing, strown, thrown, unworn, wonder, wonner, worsen, wrongs.

+3 letters: browned, browner, brownie, cornrow, crowing, crowned, crowner, crownet, decrown, downers, downier, drownds, drowned, drowner, embrown, endower, fanwort, forwent, forworn, frowned, frowner, growing, grownup, imbrown, ingrown, knowers, lowborn, narrows, network, newborn, nonwars, nonword, nonwork, nowhere, onwards, outworn, overnew, pawnors, pinwork, pinworm, rainbow, recrown, reendow, reflown, regrown, renowns, reshown, rewoken, rewound, rewoven, rowings, rubdown, rundown, snowier, swooner, tinwork, trowing, uncrown, unswore, unsworn, upgrown, wagoner, warison, warworn, wayworn, whereon, whoring, windrow, wonders, wonkier, wonners, wording, working, workman, workmen, worming, worsens, wronged, wronger, wrongly.