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wear off

wear off verb: to diminish in effect.

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) to diminish in effect
    • The effect of the injection will gradually wear off.
    • My passion for football has worn off –I'm into into women's volleyball now.
  2. (intransitive) to disappear because of being abraded, over-polished, or abused
    • The silver plating on that cheap silverware will wear off.

wear off meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Telugu

wear off in Hindi

to wear off
मिटना miṭnā
to wear off, fade, disappear
उतरना utarnā

wear off in Tamil

வழுமூட்டு

wear off in Urdu

to wear off, fade, disappear
اترنا utarnā
to wear off
مٹنا miṭnā

wear off in Telugu

to disappear because of being abraded, over-polished, or abused
అరిగిపోవు arigipōvu
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wear off in Malayalam
തേഞ്ഞുപോകുക, വാടിപ്പോകുക, നിറം മങ്ങുക, മങ്ങുക
wear off in Kannada
ಕ್ಷೀಣಿಸು, ಅಳಿಸಿಹೋಗು
wear off in Punjabi
لہنا lahaṇā

Forms of wear off

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

Questions about wear off

What does wear off mean?
Wear off means to diminish in effect.
What is wear off in Hindi?
Wear off in Hindi is मिटना (miṭnā), उतरना (utarnā). See Wear off meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is wear off?
Wear off is a verb.
What is the past tense of wear off?
The past tense of wear off is wore off.

Words near wear off in the dictionary

  1. wear horns
  2. wear in
  3. wear leveling
  4. wear levelling
  5. wear many hats
  6. wear off
  7. wear on
  8. wear on one's sleeve
  9. wear one's heart on one's sleeve
  10. wear one's heart upon one's sleeve
  11. wear out

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wear off (page history and authors); उतरना (Hindi) (page history and authors); wear off (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); اترنا (Urdu) (page history and authors); wear off (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); wear off (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); لہنا (Punjabi) (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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