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Significados de wear down em inglês

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Exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress.

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Uso de wear down em inglês
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The scores helped wear down the challenge of the relegation-threatened home team.
The Irish Times
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Given enough time, my battle cruisers can probably wear down that battleship.
Beyond The Frontier: Steadfast
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After several minutes of kicking and scratching, she began to wear down.
Taken by sin
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They've adopted a guerrilla policy to try and wear down our fleet.
The Neutronium Alchemist
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But time and change soon wear down these first fancies of youth.
Eleanor
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Wafewa said the wily campaigner would try to wear down the young refugee.
Radio NZ
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A drip can wear down a stone if allowed to drip long enough.
Ebony
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That may be New Delhi's strategy - to wear down Kashmiris.
Reuters
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You still need to be strong and to wear down the other person.
Wired
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The hard life was beginning to wear down the dauntless spirit.
Pathfinders of the West / Being the Thrilling Story of the Adven...
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At the worst the uneducated only wear down old things by sheer walking.
Tremendous Trifles
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This contains some crappy plastic gears which will doubtless wear down soon enough.
Wired
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He made it past the city and began to wear down.
O+F
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It will take considerable time, and wear down a great number of soldiers.
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Tho...
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Papa Musard in an hour could wear down even his patience.
The Second Class Passenger: Fifteen Stories
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Why, as the continents wear down, the oceans are filling up.
A History of Science — Volume 3
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Translations for wear down
espanhol
agotarcansar
Wear down ao longo do tempo
Wear down nas variantes da língua
Estados Unidos da América
Comum
Reino Unido
Comum