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单词 wear out
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to 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.
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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.
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to wear out
c. to wear out: to forget, lose mental hold of, through disuse or lapse of time. Obsolete.
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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.
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to wear out
16. trans. to wear out: to come safe through, ‘weather’ (a storm, an attack of sickness). Obsolete.
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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.
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