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Princeton's WordNet

  1. tire, wear upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out, fag, fatigueverb

    exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress

    "We wore ourselves out on this hike"

  2. break, wear, wear out, bust, fall apartverb

    go to pieces

    "The lawn mower finally broke"; "The gears wore out"; "The old chair finally fell apart completely"

  3. wear, wear off, wear out, wear down, wear thinverb

    deteriorate through use or stress

    "The constant friction wore out the cloth"

Wiktionary

  1. wear outverb

    To cause (something) to become damaged, useless, or ineffective through continued use, especially hard, heavy, or careless use.

  2. wear outverb

    To deteriorate or become unusable or ineffective due to continued use, exposure, or strain.

  3. wear outverb

    To exhaust; to cause or contribute to another's exhaustion, fatigue, or weariness, as by continued strain or exertion.

  4. wear outverb

    To become exhausted, tired, fatigued, or weary, as by continued strain or exertion.

  5. wear outverb

    Of apparel, displayed in public.

  6. wear outverb

    Of a shirt, not tucked into the pants; worn in a casual manner.

  7. wear outverb

    To punish by spanking.

Wikipedia

  1. wear out

    Wear is the damaging, gradual removal or deformation of material at solid surfaces. Causes of wear can be mechanical (e.g., erosion) or chemical (e.g., corrosion). The study of wear and related processes is referred to as tribology. Wear in machine elements, together with other processes such as fatigue and creep, causes functional surfaces to degrade, eventually leading to material failure or loss of functionality. Thus, wear has large economic relevance as first outlined in the Jost Report. Abrasive wear alone has been estimated to cost 1-4% of the gross national product of industrialized nations.Wear of metals occurs by plastic displacement of surface and near-surface material and by detachment of particles that form wear debris. The particle size may vary from millimeters to nanometers. This process may occur by contact with other metals, nonmetallic solids, flowing liquids, solid particles or liquid droplets entrained in flowing gasses.The wear rate is affected by factors such as type of loading (e.g., impact, static, dynamic), type of motion (e.g., sliding, rolling), temperature, and lubrication, in particular by the process of deposition and wearing out of the boundary lubrication layer. Depending on the tribosystem, different wear types and wear mechanisms can be observed.

ChatGPT

  1. wear out

    To wear out generally means to use or do something continuously or excessively to the point where it becomes damaged, depleted, or no longer functional. It also can refer to causing someone to feel extremely tired or exhausted.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of wear out in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of wear out in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of wear out in a Sentence

  1. Mark Twain:

    My kind of loyalty was to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.

  2. Bishop Richard Cumberland:

    It is better to wear out than to rust out.

  3. Oséias Gulart:

    Love does not end,it does not corrupt end it does not wear out,what ends up is the capacity of the human being to love.

  4. Peter Layton:

    I think China wants to keep the JASDF off-balance and reactive, wear out its aircraft and air crew, gain training and keep the pressure up daily on who owns the disputed islands.

  5. Charles Lister:

    I think the regime played a very, very sly game, they were playing spoiler with the full knowledge that the opposition’s patience would wear out.


Translations for wear out

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  • ausleiernGerman
  • väsyä, uuvuttaa, väsyttää, kulua, kuluttaaFinnish
  • user, harasser, fatiguerFrench
  • caithIrish
  • 疲れる, 擦り減る, 疲れさせる, 擦り減らすJapanese
  • taiākotikotiMāori
  • llik'iyQuechua
  • утомляться, изнашивать, изнашиваться, уставать, изнурять, изматыватьRussian
  • hao mònVietnamese

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