Chapter Wasteboard to Weather of W by Soule's Synonymes

5. Impair, waste, diminish, consume gradually, spend, cause to disappear.

6. Cause by friction, occasion by wasting.

7. Affect by degrees, bring about gradually.

8. (Naut.) [Written also Ware.] Veer.

Wear, v. n.

1. Be wasted, wear away.

2. Endure use, last under employment.

3. Suffer injury by use, be wasted, be consumed, be diminished by use.

4. Be tediously spent, be consumed by slow degrees.

Wear away.

1. (Active.) Waste, consume, impair, diminish, destroy by gradual attrition, wear.

2. Consume, spend tediously, use up.

Wear away. (Neuter.) Be consumed, be wasted.

Wearied, a. Tired, fatigued, jaded, fagged, exhausted, weary.

Weariness, n. Fatigue, lassitude, exhaustion, prostration, languor, languidness.

Wearisome, a. Tedious, tiresome, fatiguing, annoying, weary, vexatious, trying, humdrum, prosy, monotonous, uninteresting, irksome.

Wear off. (Active.)

1. Obliterate, rub off.

2. Diminish by attrition, rub off

Wear off. (Neuter.) Pass off by degrees or gradually.

Wear out.

1. Consume, render useless, waste.