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Synonyms for wearing out


Grammar : Verb
Spell : wair
Phonetic Transcription : wɛər



Définition of wearing out

Origin :
  • "action of wearing" (clothes), mid-15c., from wear (v.). Meaning "what one wears" is 1570s. To be the worse for wear is attested from 1782; noun phrase wear and tear is first recorded 1660s, implying the sense "process of being degraded by use."
  • verb become worn
  • verb exhaust
Example sentences :
  • "But I've no intention of wearing out just yet," said Raeburn, cheerfully.
  • Extract from : « We Two » by Edna Lyall
  • We hear a great deal about the exhaustion or wearing out of the soil.
  • Extract from : « Agriculture for Beginners » by Charles William Burkett
  • His gaze was still searchingly keen, but the priest was wearing out.
  • Extract from : « Mountain Blood » by Joseph Hergesheimer
  • What's the good of wearing out one's tongue before one has the hang of the matter?
  • Extract from : « The Power of Darkness » by Leo Tolstoy
  • Work as he might, he had no such stress to fear as was wearing out her life.
  • Extract from : « Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 (of 2) » by F. Marion Crawford
  • All this was wearing out his strength, and sapping his very life.
  • Extract from : « The Perpetual Curate » by Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant
  • What do you mean by wearing out the brim o' your hat in that way?
  • Extract from : « Evan Harrington, Complete » by George Meredith
  • Clothes were wearing out, bread was harder and harder to get.
  • Extract from : « The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories » by Mark Twain
  • Wearing out my scabbard, she said with a fatigue that made no attempt at lightness.
  • Extract from : « Paths of Judgement » by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
  • Spare your energies, spare your eyesight which you are wearing out by excess of grief.
  • Extract from : « Woman under Monasticism » by Lina Eckenstein

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