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worse for wear en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (idiomatic) In poor physical condition due to long or heavy use.
   • However, before Zoe could open the first cage, Burt’s van, looking decidedly the worse for wear, came thundering into the warehouse, smashing the huge metal sliding door into the air as it did so 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
2. (idiomatic) Drunk.

Forms

Relateds

wear out · weatherworn · wear down

Synonyms

lubed up · out of sight · feeling no pain · adrip · worse for wear · tuned · inebriate · crocked · inter pocula · have the sun in one's eyes · stinko · bingoed · befuddled · lathered · smashed · overrefreshed · raddled · jaked · canned · pickled · parlatic · broken-down · blue · mad with it · corned · dead drunk · three sheets to the wind · loose · stotious · besotted · a sheet in the wind's eye · bladdered · inebriated · whittled · wobbly · tight · a sheet in the wind · ragged · bottled · clobbered · fuckfaced · high as a kite · liquory · strut · blind · tanked · shicker · beliquored · slizzard · tight as a tick · ebriose · soused · how came you so · mabok · groggy · aled up · inebrious · sloppy drunk · bungfu · muggy · blasted · have drink taken · deteriorated · snozzled · tipsy · woozy · fuzzy-minded · cockeyed · ripped · zonked · schloshed · lubed · blewed · cup-shotten · ginned · rinky-dink · temulentive · passé · trashed · monged · unimproved · rolling · Brahms · cut · defective · skunked · plowed · looped · fresh · overcome · wazzocked · drunk as a piper · fershnickered · scuttered · ploughed · out of one's head · pixilated · twisted · high · half polluted · full · outworn · gesuip · sodden · spanceled · cunted · toping · tanked up · stoned · shitty · fuddled · lushed · blocked · hooched up · sprung · disguised · sozzly · slarmied · potshot · rubbered · snockered · langered · muddled · legless · wellied · jarred · Oliver Twist · juiced up · floored · temulent · nimptopsical · wrecksome · worn-out · larruped · tilted · wet · razzled · squiffed · worse for liquor · on the ran tan · in liquor · in one's cups · damaged · wazzed · blind drunk · in the bag · flush · wrecked · flooey · shabby · Adrian Quist · lashed · fou · shedded · scammered · pie-eyed · bibulous · tired · stoated · newted · bedrunken · fluted · crapulous · sauced · juiced · drunked up · drunk · soaken · nappy · obfuscated · gattered · in one's altitudes · deteriorated · muzzy · potted · hosed · tippled · shickered · kaylied · throwed · fuzzy-headed · sozzled · blottoed · bibacious · past it · out of it · maggot · three sheets in the wind · worn-out · maudlin · Brahms and Liszt · shellacked · fap · liquored up · budgy · off one's tits · blootered · wasted · mortalled · raddled · zooted · cup-shot · munted · fried · arseholed · lubricated · burlin' · lit · ripe · in the drink · souped-up · hooted · snuffy · well-oiled · elephant's trunk · stewed · plastered · schnockered · soshed · top-heavy · flustered · fuckered up · screwed · sotted · stinking · spannered · off one's head · half seas over · rough · fluthered · faced · lamped · hoovered · cocked · quisby · ebriated · high as a Georgia pine · elevated · mullered · binned · oiled up · sloshed · blitzed · bollocksed · destroyed · besotten · elephant's · lash · primed · mortal · wrecked · impaired · kettled · out of one's box · steamboats · drunken · insobrietous · spiffed · MWI · hazed · gassed · twatfaced · overtaken · zotzed · worn · bosky · pounded · groggified · past one's prime · kisky · insober · gee-eyed · withered · slammed · all mops and brooms · splashed · puggled · flushed · zoned · spongy · four sheets in the wind · sauced up · loaded · toasted · langers · stale · hog-whimpering · faulty · ravaged · stonkered · mashed · bevvied · sewed up · messed up · Oliver · Mozart and Liszt · maggoted · swacked · glorious · hammered · honkers · sottish · top-heavy with drink · effete · half cut · ratfaced · medicated · bombed · paralytic · oiled · loopy · gished · out of one's face · obliviated · clapped out · frosted · weakened · munted · dilapidated · worse for liquor · worsened · boozy · ossified · off one's box · polluted · snookered · tired and emotional · bungalowed · wastey · zorched · half lit

Translations (19)

pt em mau estado (in poor physical condition due to long or heavy use) · ru совсем плохой (drunk) · sv skamfilad (in poor physical condition due to long or heavy use) · ru видавший виды (in poor physical condition due to long or heavy use) · pt bêbado (drunk) · ru никакой (drunk) · sv tilltygad (in poor physical condition due to long or heavy use) · pt alegre (drunk) · pl zmęczony życiem (drunk) · sv åtgången (in poor physical condition due to long or heavy use) · nl dronken (drunk) · pt com mau aspecto (in poor physical condition due to long or heavy use) · sv sjaskig (in poor physical condition due to long or heavy use) · ru потрёпанный (in poor physical condition due to long or heavy use) · pt embriagado (drunk) · fr soûl (drunk) · sv medfaren (in poor physical condition due to long or heavy use) · sv sliten (in poor physical condition due to long or heavy use) · pt acabado (in poor physical condition due to long or heavy use)