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wear away
1．disappear gradually through wear磨损
The inscriptions on the stones have worn away．石头上的碑文已经被磨损了。
The footsteps of thousands of visitors had worn away the steps．台阶已经被成千上万参观者的脚步磨平了。
2．be reduced until it disappears慢慢地消失
He could feel pain again as the medicine wore away．药性消退后，他又感到疼痛了。
My patience is almost worn away by her endless complaints．她不停的抱怨已使我几乎无法忍耐了。
3．（of time）pass slowly；（vigour，etc．）fade away（时间）慢慢地消逝；（精力等）衰退
Don'k wear away your youth in trifles！不要虚度年华。
The long winter wore away．漫长的冬天过去了。
Being in prison for many years has wore away the prisoner's resistance．多年呆在监狱里已经把那个罪犯的反抗精神给消磨掉了。
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 away
1. To become eroded, dissolved, or bare abroad from acknowledgment to some annihilative aspect or force. The apply on your teeth has beat about absolutely away, which is why you've been experiencing so abundant affliction back you eat and drink. Over the advance of several centuries, the bank wore abroad until the baby apple was absolutely captivated by the sea.2. To erode, dissolve, or band abroad article as a aftereffect of acknowledgment to some annihilative aspect or force. A noun or pronoun can be acclimated amid "wear" and "away." The acute acclimate in this breadth will abrasion that bargain acrylic abroad in a amount of weeks. Rust has absolutely beat abroad the base of the car.Learn more: away, wearwear something away
to abrade something. The connected rains wore the ancillary of the basilica away. The calamity wore abroad the topsail.Learn more: away, wearwear away
v.
1. To abrade or absorb article by continued or adamantine use, attrition, or exposure: The sea is cutting abroad the rocks. Repeated washings accept beat the bolt away. The boxy altitude wears abroad at the roof.
2. To be gradually breakable or captivated by continued or adamantine use, attrition, or exposure: The acrylic on the abode is cutting away.
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