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单词 wear out
释义 wear out
verb
Etymology: Middle English weren out, from weren to wear + out
transitive verb
1. : to make useless especially by long or hard usage
 < wore out four pairs of gloves shaking 6000 hands — Jane Muskie >
2. : harass, tire, exhaust
 < economic sections are so detailed … that they wear out the reader — R.V.Harlow >
 < hope you're not going to wear yourself out waiting on him — Ellen Glasgow >
3. : erase, efface
4. : to endure through : outlast
 < wear out a storm >
5. : to consume (as time) tediously
 < wear out idle days >
6. dialect : beat, whip
 < things mama used to say she'd wear us out for saying — Lillian Smith >
intransitive verb
: to become useless from long or excessive wear or use
 < when a field is wearing out, the corn growing shorter and bearing fewer ears — Merran McCulloch >
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