wear down

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verb

1. exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress (Freq. 1)
- We wore ourselves out on this hike
• Syn:
tire, wear upon, tire out, wear, weary,
jade, wear out, outwear, fag out, fag, fatigue
• Ant:
refresh (for: tire)
• Derivationally related forms:
fatigue (for: fatigue), jade (for: jade), wear (for: wear)
• Hypernyms:
indispose
• Hyponyms:
exhaust, wash up, beat, tucker, tucker out,
overtire, overweary, overfatigue
• Cause:
tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jade
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Sam cannot wear down Sue
2. deteriorate through use or stress
- The constant friction wore out the cloth
• Syn:
wear, wear off, wear out, wear thin
• Derivationally related forms:
wear (for: wear)
• Hypernyms:
deteriorate
• Hyponyms:
ablate, scuff
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something