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wear away

wear away verb: to erode gradually and progressively.

Verb

wear away (third-person singular simple present wears away, present participle wearing away, simple past wore away, past participle worn away)

  1. To erode gradually and progressively.
    • As the sensitiveness which greeted my new position wore away, I began to rather like the freedom of my new character.1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 17
    • I stopped taking the sweets and condiments I had got from home. The mind having taken a different turn, the fondness for condiments wore away, and I now relished the boiled spinach which in Richmond tasted insipid, cooked without condiments. Many such experiments taught me that the real seat of...1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I, chapter xvii
    Synonyms:
    fret, abrade

wear away meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Telugu

wear away in Tamil

erode gradually
தேய் tēy

wear away in Marathi

to wear away, waste away
झिजणे jhijṇe

wear away in Urdu

پرانا کر دینا

wear away in Telugu

to wear away
అరుగు arugu
More languagesFewer languages
wear away in Kannada
ಕರಗು karagu

Synonyms of wear away

Forms of wear away

third-person singular presentwears away
present participlewearing away
pastwore away
past participleworn away

Questions about wear away

What does wear away mean?
Wear away means to erode gradually and progressively.
What is wear away in Tamil?
Wear away in Tamil is தேய் (tēy). See Wear away meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is wear away?
Wear away is a verb.
What is the past tense of wear away?
The past tense of wear away is wore away.

Words near wear away in the dictionary

  1. weaps
  2. weaps.
  3. wear
  4. wear and tear
  5. wear as a badge of honor
  6. wear away
  7. wear down
  8. wear horns
  9. wear in
  10. wear leveling
  11. wear levelling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wear away (page history and authors); झिजणे (Marathi) (page history and authors); wear away (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); అరుగు (Telugu) (page history and authors); ಕರಗು (Kannada) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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