What is another word for wearing out?

Pronunciation: [wˈe͡əɹɪŋ ˈa͡ʊt] (IPA)

Wearing out is a term that describes the gradual loss of quality or effectiveness of an object or a person. There are several synonyms for this phrase, including deteriorating, declining, weakening, and exhausting. Deteriorating implies a gradual decay of something that was once strong or in good condition. Declining suggests a gradual decrease in quality or performance. Weakening means that something is becoming less effective or less capable. Exhausting implies a heavy burden or exertion on a person or thing. All of these synonyms convey the idea that something is becoming less useful over time and may need to be replaced or repaired.

What are the hypernyms for Wearing out?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Wearing out

  • I retired because I had a knee injury, my cartilage was wearing out, it was painful and I couldn't put in the four hours of practice each day that I needed to.
    Guy Forget
  • Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.
    Martha Gellhorn
  • Frost says in a piece of homely doggerel that he has hoped wisdom could be not only Attic but Laconic, Boeotian even — “at least not systematic”; but how systematically Frostian the worst of his later poems are! His good poems are the best refutation of, the most damning comment on, his bad: his have the air of being able to educate any faithful reader into tearing out a third of the pages, reading a third, and practically wearing out the rest.
    Randall Jarrell
  • [Robert] Frost says in a piece of homely doggerel that he has hoped wisdom could be not only Attic but Laconic, Boeotian even—“at least not systematic”; but how systematically Frostian the worst of his later poems are! His good poems are the best refutation of, the most damning comment on, his bad: his have the air of being able to educate any faithful reader into tearing out a third of the pages, reading a third, and practically wearing out the rest.
    Randall Jarrell
  • Oh, Men, with Sisters dear! Oh, Men, with Mothers and Wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!
    Thomas Hood

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