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Meanings of
wear out
in English
Portuguese
desgastar
Catalan
desgastar
Spanish
agotar
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Exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress.
wear
weary
fatigue
tire
jade
fag
outwear
fag out
wear upon
tire out
refresh
Portuguese
desgastar
Catalan
trencar-se
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Go to pieces.
break
bust
fall apart
Related terms
break away
break off
break up
break apart
wear away
Catalan
trencar-se
Usage of
wear out
in English
1
And so you
wear
out
your eyesight in the working of chairs.
2
The toil was fitted to
wear
out
the strongest of his men.
3
Running less than an hour, the film doesn't
wear
out
its welcome.
4
Gee, but he does
wear
out
the engines in his cars, Whitney.
5
So ladies and gentlemen, we're going to
wear
out
some shoe leather.
6
By degrees the novelties of life
wear
out
,
and we become sober.
7
Nevertheless, the romance of life did not
wear
out
of his constitution.
8
Ned said, you see the old one did not
wear
out
entirely.
9
Human individuals do
wear
out
and have to be replaced by reproduction.
10
I stay at home so as not to
wear
out
my clothes.
11
Depends on how quickly they
wear
out
and how roughly you play.
12
Hereafter they could count on him to
wear
out
their old dresses.
13
His wife had set scars on him that would never
wear
out
.
14
Better
wear
out
than rust out, and better break than
wear
out
.
15
I presume this is an economy, as wooden shoes
wear
out
stockings.
16
You will never ever ever have a baseline that doesn't
wear
out
.
Other examples for "wear out"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
This collocation consists of:
wear
out
wear
Verb
Preposition
Translations for
wear out
Portuguese
desgastar
cansar-se
exaurir-se
desgaste
esmerilar
Catalan
desgastar
desgastar-se
fatigar-se
cansar-se
fatigar
cansar
abatre
trencar-se
fracturar-se
rompre's
descompondre
Spanish
agotar
cansar
Wear out
through the time
Wear out
across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common