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worn in

worn in is the past participle of wear in.

Meaning of wear in

Verb

wear in (third-person singular simple present wears in, present participle wearing in, simple past wore in, past participle worn in)

  1. (ambitransitive) To wear until becoming comfortable or fitting properly; to cause (something) to wear in this way (by using it).
    • It took a few weeks for my new hiking boots to wear in. Then it took another 12 years for them to wear out.
    Synonyms:
    break in

Questions about worn in

What is worn in the past participle of?
Worn in is the past participle of wear in.

Words near worn in in the dictionary

  1. worn
  2. worn and torn
  3. worn away
  4. worn down
  5. worn horns
  6. worn in
  7. worn many hats
  8. worn off
  9. worn on
  10. worn on one's sleeve
  11. worn one's heart on one's sleeve

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Adapted from Wiktionary: worn in (page history and authors); wear in (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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