Definition of "washed-up" []

• No longer successful or needed; finished. (adjective)
• Ready to give up in disgust. (adjective)

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• "Dunaway is commanding in a caffeinated performance as ruthless Diana, William Holden unusually affecting as a washed-up veteran of TV's glory days, and Finch a revelation as the unbalanced Beale, winning a posthumous Oscar for his work."
• "Chris Pratt is affecting as Scott Hatteberg, the washed-up catcher recycled by Billy, according to sabermetric precepts, into a valuable first-baseman."
• "Your correspondent Steven Bavaria ( Letters , Dec. 19) has it wrong about Winston Churchill, who was hardly a washed-up over-the-hill politician in the 1930s, though he did have baggage (Gallipoli), but none of a personal kind, and the British didn't turn to him in 1940."