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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