单词 | wear out |
释义 | > as lemmasto wear out a. figurative. With object a quality, condition, activity, disease, etc.: to cause to weaken, diminish, or disappear gradually. Chiefly with adverb or adverbial phr. (as above). to wear out: to efface, destroy, exhaust, abolish, by gradual loss or the lapse of time. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > devour, engulf, or consume (of fire, water, etc.) > consume or destroy wastefully (time, money, etc.) to wear out1390 exhaust1541 horse-leech1679 to eat up1680 racket1753 to run into the ground1836 short1979 the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > exhaust land [verb (transitive)] > exhaust wear?1507 to wear out1586 drive1645 to run out1698 overcrop1743 exhaust1787 overteem1818 skin1845 nigger1859 overplant1890 the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > reduce in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (transitive)] > reduce gradually to wane away1601 wear1697 wean1707 whittle1736 to tail off (out)1827 to ease off1884 to taper off (away, down)1898 to run down1960 to wind down1969 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 33 The world..welnyh is wered oute. ?a1400 Morte Arth. 2930 Oure wages are werede owte, and thi werre endide. 1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. C4 But that custome..is longe since worne out. 1657 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 59 That acquaintance with you which time and far distance hath worne something out of our memories. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 5 We grant, although he had much wit, H' was very shie of using it, As being loath to wear it out. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 96 All other Themes, that careless Minds invite, Are worn with use; unworthy me to write. View more context for this quotation 1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 100 By the Pompousness of the whole Phrase, to wear off any Littleness that appears in the particular Parts that compose it. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 39. ⁋1 Diversions of this kind wear out of our Thoughts every thing that is mean and little. 1751 F. Coventry Hist. Pompey the Little i. x. 91 When he had a little wore off the Relish of Pleasure. 1831 G. P. R. James Philip Augustus xxii As the fire wore away the strength of the wood. 1858 B. Taylor Northern Trav. xii. 124 When the novelty of the thing is worn off. 1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iv. xvi. 297 As if Time alone could quite wear her injury out. 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) IV. xviii. 145 He did not strike a blow till all the powers of diplomacy had been thoroughly worn out between himself and his rival. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 846 Repeated operations with the idea of ‘wearing out’ the disease. to wear out ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > recollect wrongly [verb (transitive)] forgetc1300 oblivec1500 misremember1533 oblitec1560 to wear outa1676 misrecollect1818 misrecall1959 a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) To Rdr. My application to another Study and Profession, rendred my skill in that Language of little use to me, and so I wore it out by degrees. 1711 J. Swift Sentiments Church of Eng.-man ii, in Misc. Prose & Verse 131 When these Doctrines began to be Preached among us, the Kingdom had not quite worn out the Memory of that unhappy Rebellion. to wear out ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > escape > escape from [verb (transitive)] > pass through (danger or adversity) passa1325 to wear out1617 weathera1631 to come through ——1655 survive1717 to live out1719 overa1800 1617 in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 252 She has fallen into it [the ague] again..but..I hope she may wear it out. 1645 Bp. J. Hall Remedy Discontentm. xii. 63 The poor man..when hee foresees a storm to threaten him, puts into the next Creek; and wears out in a quiet security that Tempest, wherein he sees prouder Vessels..fatally wracked. < as lemmas |
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