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To wear off

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to diminish or remove by attrition or slow decay; as, to wear off the nap of cloth.
to pass away by degrees; as, the follies of youth wear off with age.

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Together with the rest of the party, he had been overawed by our white appearance and by our magic properties; but it seemed to me that, on discovering that we ate, drank, and slept like other mortals, his awe was beginning to wear off, and to be replaced by a sullen suspicion--which made me feel rather uncomfortable.
He had not had his clothes off for thirty hours, and the stimulus of violent excitement was beginning to wear off.
Time, however, and the satisfaction I had that I was in no danger of being discovered by these people, began to wear off my uneasiness about them; and I began to live just in the same composed manner as before, only with this difference, that I used more caution, and kept my eyes more about me than I did before, lest I should happen to be seen by any of them; and particularly, I was more cautious of firing my gun, lest any of them, being on the island, should happen to hear it.
 
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