worndown

worndown: worn-down
1> изношенный; потертый, сносившийся
_Ex:
worn-down clothes поношенная одежда
_Ex:
worn-down rope измочаленная веревка
_Ex:
steps worn-down with pilgrims' knees ступени, истертые
коленями богомольцев
2> старый, шаблонный, избитый, неоригинальный, плоский
(о шутке)

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grain — [13] Grain comes via Old French from Latin grānum ‘seed’. Its prehistoric Indo European ancestor was *grnóm, literally ‘worndown particle’, which also produced English corn, and it has given English a remarkably wide range of related forms: not… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
grain — [13] Grain comes via Old French from Latin grānum ‘seed’. Its prehistoric Indo European ancestor was *grnóm, literally ‘worndown particle’, which also produced English corn, and it has given English a remarkably wide range of related forms: not… … Word origins

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