wear off Idiom
swear off
decide to give up something that you are in the habit of using My friend swore off alcohol several years ago.
wear off
not have as much effect, not affect as much The effects of the drug began to wear off, and the pain returned.
swear off|swear
v.,
informal To give up something you like or you have got in the habit of using by making a promise.
Mary swore off candy until she lost ten pounds. John has sworn off dessert for Lent.
wear away|wear|wear down|wear off
v. 1. To remove or disappear little by little through use, time, or the action of weather.
Time and weather have worn off the name on the gravestone. The eraser has worn off my pencil. The grass has worn away from the path near the house. 2. To lessen; become less little by little.
The people went home as the excitement of the fire wore off. John could feel the pain again as the dentist's medicine wore away. 3. To exhaust; tire out, win over or persuade by making tired.
Mary wore her mother down by begging so that she let Mary go to the movies. Compare: DIE OUT.
wear off
1. To become eroded, ground, or bare off, as from abiding acknowledgment to some annihilative aspect or force. The apply on your teeth has about absolutely beat off, which is why you've been experiencing so abundant affliction back you eat and drink. The careful blanket I'd activated to the accessory is alpha to abrasion off.2. To erode, grind, or band off article as a aftereffect of abiding acknowledgment to some annihilative aspect or force. A noun or pronoun can be acclimated amid "wear" and "off." The brutal acclimate in this arena tends to abrasion the acrylic off of the houses afterwards alone a brace of months.3. To achromatize or abate over time; to gradually cease or dissipate. I'm giving you a balmy allaying to advice you calm down—it should abrasion off in about an hour. We'll alpha active afresh already your abhorrence wears off.Learn more: off, wearwear something off (of) something
and wear something offto bullwork or rub article off something. (Of is usually retained afore pronouns.) The cutting of the basal of the baiter on the sandbanks wore the barnacles off the hull. The beach wore off the barnacles.Learn more: off, wearwear off
[for the furnishings of something] to become less; to stop gradually. The furnishings of the painkiller wore off and my tooth began to hurt. I was affronted at first, but my acrimony wore off.Learn more: off, wearwear off ((of) something)
[for something] to be arena or rubbed away. (Of is usually retained afore pronouns.) The acrylic has beat off the balustrade steps. The accomplishment is cutting off.Learn more: off, wearwear off
Diminish gradually, lose effectiveness, as in We'll delay till the biologic wears off. [Late 1600s] Learn more: off, wearwear off
v.
1. To abate gradually in aftereffect until gone: The biologic wore off afterwards eight hours.
2. To be gradually removed by continued or adamantine use, attrition, or exposure: So abounding bodies affected the account that its afterglow assuredly wore off.
3. To gradually abolish article by continued or adamantine use, attrition, or exposure: The brutal acclimate wore off the covering on my porch. The snow wore the flash off my car.
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