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deteriorate through use or stress
The constant friction wore out the cloth -
diminish, as by friction
Erosion wore away the surface
How To Use wear off In A Sentence
- I dissected the magazine from cover to cover, until the ink started to wear off the pages.
- She didn't say anything when he unwound her arms from around him and pulled her shirt over her head, peeled her underwear off and stuck her under the running water.
- The effects of the drug naturally wear off within a few hours.
- Since its launch in 2006 Target's Go International programme has been joined by the Designer Collaborations series, working with established designers such as Posen also revealed earlier this month that he is set to launch his own affordable diffusion line, named Z Spoke, to his womenswear offering. Undefined
- Down-market restaurant chains Long John Silver and Red Lobster resist an enviro campaign to swear off engineered seafood.
- A combination of the two would be enough to make many people swear off the box. Times, Sunday Times
- I wonder if after one year, all the "newness" and " specialness " will wear off and my colleagues won't consider me a foreigner.
- It's a pain reliever; it will wear off or we'll run out of pain relievers and then we'll be left with a huge deficit. Dow Hits a Nearly Six-Month High, Up 31.49
- When are you going to swear off cigarettes?
- The time it takes for a dose of a drug to wear off is measured by a value called a half-life.