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