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
- "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
Words or expressions associated with your search
- activewear
- casual wear
- dog-weary
- false swearing
- footwear
- forswear
- forswearing
- hard wear
- hard-wearing
- leisure wear
- leisure wears
- leisurewear
- leisurewears
- loungewear
- neckwear
- nightwear
- outwear
- sportswear
- swear
- swear at
- swear by
- swear off
- swear on bible
- swear to
- swear to God
- swear up and down
- swearing
- underwear
- unweariedly
- wear
- wear away
- wear down
- wear out
- wear well
- wearied
- wearing
- wearing away
- wearing only a smile
- wearisome
- wearisomeness
- weary
- weary load
- wearying
- world-weariness
- world-weary
- worse for wear
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