单词 | wear away |
释义 | wear away (once / 3634 pages) v WORD FAMILY wear away: wearing away, wears away, wore away+/wearing away: wearings away USAGE EXAMPLESThe air and ground campaign by Syrian troops — backed by Russian warplanes and forces from Assad’s regional allies — relentlessly wore away at the enclave. Time(Dec 15, 2016) But as the heat died down, the anesthesia also wore away. Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy S...(2007) All the female constraints of the house wear away at him: manners, clothes, education, religion. Slate(Oct 28, 2016) 1v become ground down or deteriorate Syn|Hyper eat at, erode, gnaw, gnaw at crumble, decay, dilapidate fall into decay or ruin 2v diminish, as by friction Erosion wore away the surface Syn|Hypo|Hyper wear off abrade, abrase, corrade, rub down, rub off wear away chafe, excoriatetear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading raspscrape with a rasp remove, take, take away, withdraw remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract 3v cut away in small pieces Syn|Hyper whittle away, whittle down damage inflict damage upon |
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