| wear (wâr) v. wore (wôr, w  r), worn (wôrn, wrn), wear·ing, wears v.tr. 1. To carry or have on the person as covering, adornment, or protection: wearing a jacket; must wear a seat belt. 2. To carry or have habitually on the person, especially as an aid: wears glasses. 3. To display in one's appearance: always wears a smile. 4. To bear, carry, or maintain in a particular manner: wears her hair long. 5. To fly or display (colors). Used of a ship, jockey, or knight. 6. To damage, diminish, erode, or consume by long or hard use, attrition, or exposure. Often used with away, down, or off: rocks worn away by the sea; shoes worn down at the heels. 7. To produce by constant use, attrition, or exposure: eventually wore hollows in the stone steps. 8. To bring to a specified condition by long use or attrition: wore the clothes to rags; pebbles worn smooth. 9. To fatigue, weary, or exhaust: Your incessant criticism has worn my patience. 10. Nautical To make (a sailing ship) come about with the wind aft. v.intr. 1. a. To last under continual or hard use: a fabric that will wear. b. To last through the passage of time: a friendship that wears well. 2. To break down or diminish through use or attrition: The rear tires began to wear. 3. To pass gradually or tediously: The hours wore on. 4. Nautical To come about with stern to windward. n. Phrasal Verbs: 1. The act of wearing or the state of being worn; use: The coat has had heavy wear. 2. Clothing, especially of a particular kind or for a particular use. Often used in combination: rainwear; footwear. 3. Gradual impairment or diminution resulting from use or attrition. 4. The ability to withstand impairment from use or attrition: The engine has plenty of wear left. wear down To break down or exhaust by relentless pressure or resistance. wear off To diminish gradually in effect: The drug wore off. wear out Idioms: 1. To make or become unusable through long or heavy use. 2. To use up or consume gradually. 3. To exhaust; tire. 4. Chiefly Southern U.S. To punish by spanking. wear the pants/trousers Informal To exercise controlling authority in a household. wear thin 1. To be weakened or eroded gradually: Her patience is wearing thin. 2. To become less convincing, acceptable, or popular, as through repeated use: excuses that are wearing thin. [Middle English weren, from Old English werian; see wes-2 in Indo-European roots.] wear  er n. |
wear out
vb (adverb)
1. to make or become unfit or useless through wear
2. (tr) to exhaust or tire
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
| Verb | 1. |  wear out - exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike"indispose - cause to feel unwell; "She was indisposed" exhaust, tucker, tucker out, wash up, beat - wear out completely; "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam" |
| 2. | wear out - go to pieces; "The lawn mower finally broke"; "The gears wore out"; "The old chair finally fell apart completely" | |
| 3. |  wear out - deteriorate through use or stress; "The constant friction wore out the cloth"deteriorate - become worse or disintegrate; "His mind deteriorated" ablate - wear away through erosion or vaporization scuff - get or become scuffed; "These patent leather shoes scuffed" |
Translations
? wear out
vt sep
(lit) → kaputt machen; carpet → abtreten; clothes, shoes → kaputt tragen; record, machinery → abnutzen
(fig: = exhaust) (physically) → erschöpfen, erledigen (inf); (mentally) → fertigmachen (inf); to be worn out → erschöpft or erledigt sein; (mentally) → am Ende sein (inf); to wear oneself out → sich überanstrengen, sich kaputtmachen (inf)
vi → kaputtgehen; (clothes, curtains, carpets) → verschleißen; his patience has worn out/is rapidly wearing out → seine Geduld ist erschöpft or am Ende/erschöpft sich zusehends
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