different between worn vs disabled

English

Etymology

By analogy to past participles like torn from tear and sworn from swear.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /w??n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /w??n/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /wo(?)?n/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /wo?n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n
• Homophone: warn (accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

Adjective

worn (comparative more worn, superlative most worn)

1. damaged and shabby as a result of much use

Translations

Verb

worn

1. past participle of wear

Derived terms

• forworn
• outworn
• worn out

Anagrams

• Norw., rown

Middle English

Verb

worn

1. Alternative form of weren

Old English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /worn/, [wor?n]

Noun

worn m

1. great many, multitude
2. crowd, swarm, band, flock

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “worn”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

English

Etymology

From disable +? -ed.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [d?s?e?b??d]

Adjective

disabled (comparative more disabled, superlative most disabled)

1. Made incapable of use or action.
   • 1911, "From Brittania Lodge, No. 361", Railway Carmen's Journal, Vol. 16, No. 3, March 1911, page 129:

     In the car department we would repair cars that were disabled and placed in bad order by a bunch of scalies taking the place of striking switchmen, engineers, Firemen, etc.

2. Having a disability.
3. (law) Legally disqualified.

Synonyms

• incapacitated
• indisposed
• invalid

Antonyms

• enabled

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

disabled (usually uncountable, plural disableds)

1. One who is disabled. (often used collectively as the disabled, but sometimes also singular)

Translations

Verb

disabled

1. simple past tense and past participle of disable