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verb
- 1. past participle of outwear
adjective
- 1. out of date: "outworn prejudices"
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If you describe a belief or custom as outworn, you mean that it is old-fashioned and no longer has any meaning or usefulness. [...]
out-of-date, outmoded, or obsolete: outworn ideas; outworn methods. worn-out, as clothes. exhausted in strength or endurance, as persons. v. pp. of outwear.
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worn out. We talk loosely about people being 'worn out' by a lifetime of labour, but this process is far from being understood. From the Cambridge English Corpus. The rendering on the walls is flaking off, the weary roofbeams are buckling under the weight of the roofs, the wooden bridges are worn out.
`I want to invent the present," she said to me, `the past is an outworn invention.
🌟You define what progress means to you. ... In Life Transitions Coaching, I help you to identify and let go of outworn beliefs, mindsets and ingrained reactionary habits.
The contribution of the interwar years (1918–1939) has been relatively neglected in the story of the changing nature of work. Yet this was a time when organizations were growing in complexity, management ideas were taking shape, and work relations were undergoing change (Bendix, 1956; Wren, 1985).Drawing on recently recovered archival material, this article reassesses the British interwar ...
Outworn: out of date., Usage: ⇒ That is an outworn practice in management circles ⇒ outworn prejudices: Synonyms: outmoded,
Back cover of the premier issue of Galaxy Magazine [8]. Space opera has been defined as "a television or radio drama or motion picture that is a science-fiction adventure story". [9] Some critics distinguish between space opera and planetary romance. [10] Both feature adventures in exotic settings, but space opera emphasizes space travel, while planetary romances focus on alien worlds.
A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy, 2018. A collaborative close reading of A Thousand Plateaus by some of the world’s leading Deleuze and Guattari scholars This volume brings together a team of international specialists on Deleuze and Guattari to provide in-depth critical studies of each plateau of their major work, A Thousand Plateaus.
