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- showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens (同)drawn, haggard, raddled, worn
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- (人・顔などが)苦労でやつれた
English Journal
- Compulsive sensitivity--a consequence of caring: a qualitative investigation into women carer's difficulties in limiting their labours.
- Forssén AS1, Carlstedt G, Mörtberg CM.
- Health care for women international.Health Care Women Int.2005 Sep;26(8):652-71.
- Women are expected to care, both in public and private life, for the sick as well as the healthy. Some women have difficulties in limiting their caring, despite being deeply careworn. In this life-course study, based on in-depth interviews with elderly women in Sweden, the concept "compulsive sensit
- PMID 16234210
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- His countenance was careworn; and when he commenced his exordium, his voice was slightly cracked and tremulous. His clothes were travel stained, and he appeared haggard and careworn. It was thin, however, and careworn, and wore an expression that seemed to be the result of long-continued suffering.
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