List of synonyms from "wealthy individual" to synonyms from "weather-beaten"
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Definition of the day : « wear away »
- As in whittle : verb cut away at; reduce
- As in bite : verb corrode, eat away
- As in wear off : verb go away
- As in peter : verb decrease
- As in damage : verb cause injury, loss
- As in decay : verb deteriorate, crumble
- As in decrease : verb grow less or make less
- As in deteriorate : verb decay, degenerate
- As in die : verb wither, dwindle
- As in flake : verb peel off
- As in fray : verb shred, come apart
- As in fret : verb rub hard
- Do not eat the heart: do not wear away the heart by anxiety.
- Extract from : « Plutarch's Morals » by Plutarch
- The hours wear away, and the candles are snuffed again and again.
- Extract from : « The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees » by Mary Caroline Crawford
- Before Mid-Lent, even though I wear away my legs to the knees!
- Extract from : « Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc » by Mark Twain
- But I believe the flesh on her bones she'd wear away for any one that touched her heart.
- Extract from : « Rhoda Fleming, Complete » by George Meredith
- Nataly spied at Dudley's behaviour, and said: 'That will wear away.
- Extract from : « One of Our Conquerors, Complete » by George Meredith
- They wear away, and we lay them aside like worn garments that have served their purpose.
- Extract from : « Dawn » by Mrs. Harriet A. Adams
- His censure, when counterbalanced by your censure, 127 may wear away.
- Extract from : « The Amores, or Amours » by Ovid
- Between that time and the present full nine long hours had to wear away.
- Extract from : « Stories of Exile » by Various
- If I excuse Lewis, she will think it is but some passing thing that awhile will wear away.
- Extract from : « Merkland » by Mrs. Oliphant
- The effect is terrible and does not wear away for several days.
- Extract from : « Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory » by Lucien Turner