Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Fatigued and disheveled by traveling.

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  • adjective tired by travel

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Examples

  • Popular woodcuts and prints represented the wandering Jew with a walking stick, travel-worn, bearded, and poor.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • He was badly travel-worn when he got food from the Swedish missionary on Golovin Bay and asked the way south.

    An Odyssey of the North 2010

  • They arrived here muddy, travel-worn, and exhausted, having moved faster than word of their approach could have been sent.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • He was badly travel-worn when he got food from the Swedish missionary on Golovin Bay and asked the way south.

    An Odyssey of the North 2010

  • Popular woodcuts and prints represented the wandering Jew with a walking stick, travel-worn, bearded, and poor.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • They arrived here muddy, travel-worn, and exhausted, having moved faster than word of their approach could have been sent.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • As a boy, he regularly watched the steamboats threshing into view, offloading knots of travel-worn passengers whose dreams were bundled, along with their belongings, into a few threadbare carpetbags.

    LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

  • A man in dirty, travel-worn clothes stood there, panting with fatigue.

    2008 December « Official Harry Harrison News Blog 2008

  • A man in dirty, travel-worn clothes stood there, panting with fatigue.

    Spell of Magic – Part 8 « Official Harry Harrison News Blog 2008

  • His green gaze, framed by thick black lashes, flicked across her, and Mary was painfully aware of how travel-worn she must appear.

    One Night in Scotland Karen Hawkins 2010

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