The Clue
Pale and worn (7 letter answer)
The Answer
HAGGARD
Tags
Notes
The answer HAGGARD is so rare that it appears less than once every 2900 puzzles.
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Careworn
Drawn
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Definition
HAGGARD as a noun:
1. (Haggard, Rider Haggard, Sir Henry Rider Haggard) = British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925)
HAGGARD as an adjective:
1. (careworn, drawn, haggard, raddled, worn) = 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
2. (bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted) = very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"