Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Worn by the feet: as, a foot-worn pavement.
- Worn or wearied in the feet; foot-sore: as, a foot-worn traveler.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Worn by, or weared in, the feet
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- adjective Worn by the feet.
- adjective Wearied in the feet.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The designers moved on to the dining room, where they repaired the footworn hardwood floors.
Back to the Future: Could a 1970s house be made modern again? Holly E. Thomas 2010
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That house was a tinderbox of memories; it had seen so many parties and Christmases, each one stuffed with relatives and friends chatting amiably, that even the footworn rug or a model of Volkswagen Beetle on the fireplace could spark fond reminiscences.
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A shame the ending was the worst part, but I can't really blame the film for that; I'd heard the final line a zillion times by other people referring to it, and by the time it arrived it felt footworn.
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The inside looked a little drab and footworn, though the menu looked okay.
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He mentions the beauty of the viaducts of the old Sud de France, and tells how he bicycled along the footworn side-path of the Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée in preference to the road.
The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006
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I do not know why I should have brought away from these two places a peacefulness of mind such as seldom follows a visit to show-places, but the fact is so; perhaps it was because we drove to and from them, and were not so tired as footworn sight-seers are, or so rebellious.
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The path they traveled was an uneven dirt trail studded with footworn rocks.
The Dragons at War Weis, Margaret 1996
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The path they traveled was an uneven dirt trail studded with footworn rocks.
The Dragons at War Weis, Margaret 1996
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In a voice no louder than the brush of a scrap of silk over footworn stone, Antryg whispered, "The Witchfinders."
The Silent Tower Hambly, Barbara 1986
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The corkscrew stairway, broken and footworn though it is, seems infinitely less perilous.
Cheerful—By Request Edna Ferber 1926
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