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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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In my eight months away she'd become careworn, picking nervously at her fingers as she spoke, palpably lacking the confidence she once had.
In their place were perms and dyes, Michelin waists, plump upper arms, and 40-something, careworn faces.
When you hear of her situation you think immediately of words like harassed and careworn but Jacqui confounds every expectation.
I am taken into another room and a careworn man in a reassuringly green smock and matching trousers comes in to inspect the thigh.
His hair was white, but he seemed so full of life beneath his rough, careworn exterior.
Slim, round-shouldered, with a feint moustache, he looked careworn and world-weary from the moment he graduated to international cricket.

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