单词 | war-worn |
释义 | war-worn, a. Wasted, ravaged, or battered by war; worn by the toils or privations of war.
1599Shakes. Hen. V, iv. Chor. 26 Their gesture sad, Inuesting lanke-leane Cheekes, and Warre-worne Coats. 1757W. Wilkie Epigoniad vii. 190 But with a mind unmov'd, I'll meet my doom; Nor stain this war-worn visage with a tear. 1792R. Cumberland Calvary (1803) II. 120 War-worn Sisera. 1825Scott Betrothed xvi, His war-worn shamois doublet. 1826Hor. Smith Tor Hill (1838) I. 33 Through this war-worn region did Sir Giles Hungerford and his party of horsemen press eagerly forward. 1849W. Irving Mahomet & Successors (1850) II. xvi. 142 Khaled entered with his hundred war-worn veterans. 1868G. Duff Pol. Surv. 30 The warworn fortress..had added another volume to its history. |

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