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Deteriorate through use or stress.

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Examples for "wear"
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The ready-to-wear clothes industry, New York's major industry, is almost exclusively Jewish.
Hermit in paris: autobiographical writings
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Wrap dresses are easy to wear and hide all your problem areas.
Ebony
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She asserts, quite trenchantly, her right to wear trousers on State occasions.
The Irish Times
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I wish people would wear them from a voluntary basis, she said.
Reuters
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Ultimately, of course, what you wear on your bike is personal choice.
The Guardian
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Things went well enough and James' initial concerns began to wear off.
James Potter and the Vault of Destinies
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The vaccine begins to wear off in many people after ten years.
The new yorker
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Still, if Bridger's powers wear off, I wouldn't quite call that omnipotence.
Seven Surrenders
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I'll stay at least as long as the Vicodin doesn't wear off.
Extracurricular activities
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But as night set in, the initial shock began to wear off.
BBC
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And so you wear out your eyesight in the working of chairs.
Birds of Prey
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The toil was fitted to wear out the strongest of his men.
The Personal Life of David Livingstone / Chiefly from his Unpubl...
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Running less than an hour, the film doesn't wear out its welcome.
Reuters
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Gee, but he does wear out the engines in his cars, Whitney.
Gold of the Gods
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So ladies and gentlemen, we're going to wear out some shoe leather.
The bricklayer
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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
Uso de wear thin em inglês
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But if the situation continues to degenerate, that insulation might wear thin.
Reuters
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Why do you wear thin and fray the delicious tie between you?
Five Nights: A Novel
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Duncan smiled, though he knew his patience for this would quickly wear thin.
Blind Man's Alley
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The masks, however, wear thin and the madness reveals itself.
Valis
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Of course you wear thin, but not the thinnest, clothing.
Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands
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But the joke that the government has been playing is starting to wear thin.
The Guardian
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But the way Osborne is layering on this rhetoric is beginning to wear thin now.
The Guardian
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But the interest is likely to wear thin after the first few years of it.
The Great Amulet
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But the German public's admiration for Blair, the shining moderniser, is beginning to wear thin.
The Guardian
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The excitement of adventure was starting to wear thin.
Halo Cryptum
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On Thursday, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg repeated a Facebook talking point that's beginning to wear thin.
Wired
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We have waited so long already - and now our patience is starting to wear thin.
The Irish Times
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The excitement of the moment began to wear thin, as the bitter cold penetrated my clothing.
The ghost chronicles
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The instant gratification of choosing a colourful character to lighten dark days would soon wear thin.
The Guardian
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Further experiment will convince him that he can wear thin underwear and low shoes all winter.
Why Worry?
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They can be worn but never wear thin.
The Guardian
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