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TIRE |
Wear out |
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OUTSTAY |
Wear out one’s welcome |
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OVERSTAY |
Wear out one’s welcome |
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EXANTLATE |
To exhaust or wear out. |
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OVERWEAR |
To wear too much; to wear out. |
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OUTWEAR |
To wear out; to consume or destroy by wearing. |
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WELCOME |
You get one at the door but don’t wear it out |
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STALE |
To make vapid or tasteless; to destroy the life, beauty,
or use of; to wear out. |
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SPORT |
To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as,
to sport a new equipage. |
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JADE |
To exhaust by overdriving or long-continued labor of any
kind; to tire or wear out by severe or tedious tasks; to harass. |
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WASTE |
To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by
constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out. |
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OBLITERATE |
To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any
means; to render imperceptible; as. to obliterate ideas; to obliterate
the monuments of antiquity. |
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HACKNEY |
To devote to common or frequent use, as a horse or
carriage; to wear out in common service; to make trite or commonplace;
as, a hackneyed metaphor or quotation. |
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THUMB |
To soil or wear with the thumb or the fingers; to soil,
or wear out, by frequent handling; also, to cover with the thumb; as,
to thumb the touch-hole of a cannon. |
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FRAY |
To wear out or into shreads, or to suffer injury by
rubbing, as when the threads of the warp or of the woof wear off so
that the cross threads are loose; to ravel; as, the cloth frays badly. |
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EXHAUST |
..., or
till the supply comes to an end; to deprive wholly of strength; to use
up; to weary or tire out; to wear out; as, to exhaust one's strength... |