to wear
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4.6
- verb
- /wɛr/
:
agotar
- After a while, the long hours, the pressure to perform, the catty reviews... it started to wear me down.
- wear thin
That kind of entitlement wears a man down.
- That kind of entitlement wears a man down.
- You begin to wear out those pleasure centers.
- Should you want to exercise certain virtues, that will wear on you after a while.
- And not just these days, but even back then, it wears you down.
- He's getting slapped and slapped and slapped until he just wears him down, wears him down.
- It's just doing, doing responsibility after responsibility and it wears you out.
- Wherever I see you, I'm a wear your ass out boy.
Examples
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Okay, we're gonna wear them right out.
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You're wearing yourself out.
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This is got to just wear you out.
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What is the approach that you take to wear that person down?
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So we're going to go there, run around with the boys, wear them out.
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You want a day off and let the other teams wear themselves out with an extra race.
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I guess with this one their angle was you could wear them out.
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She's completely worn him out.
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She'd expected that Cy might try to wear her down after hours.
Fiction book (1991) -
The long hours of studying began to wear me down, making it hard to concentrate.
Synonyms
194
3.2
To make someone very tired
27
4.1
Slowly make a person or thing weaker by repeated pressure
23
1.0
To become very tired or make someone very tired
19
2.7
To make a person very tired or a thing stop working by using it too much
11
4.6
To make someone very tired by hard work or long effort
10
2.1
To make a person very tired by using up their energy
4
4.4
To make someone or yourself very tired after long effort
1
8.1
To make someone tired or bored by doing something too often
To make someone very tired by doing too much without rest
To make someone very tired by long, hard effort
Make someone tired over time from too much work or stress
To work very hard until you feel tired
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
1
7.0
To show your feelings openly so other people can see them
Phrasal Verbs
- Specialized
To turn the front of a boat away from the wind so it blows from the other side
- Specialized
Turn a sailing boat away from the wind by moving the back through the wind, not the front
Compounds
17
3.0
Slow damage that happens to things like cars or furniture from normal use over time
How Tiring
Surface Forms
Etymology
To wear someone out or wear down uses the image of rubbing or using something until it is weak, so to wear yourself out is to make yourself tired by too much effort.