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wear down

English

  1. 🔊 deteriorate through use or stress
    “The constant friction wore out the cloth”
  2. 🔊 exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
    “We wore ourselves out on this hike”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 roer to wear down
  2. 🔊 destroncar to wear down, wear out
  3. 🔊 desgastar to wear down, to erode, to wear away
  4. 🔊 pasarse de rosca to wear down, wear out or wear off the thread of a nut and therefore does not grip the nut

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tire wear upon tire out wear weary jade wear out outwear fag out fag fatigue wear wear off wear out wear thin ablate abrade affect argue into beat bend bias bring over bring round