Wear Down

Definition: Wear Down

Wear Down

Verb

1. Exhaust or tire though overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Wear Down

Contraction

Abrade, pare, reduce, attenuate, rub down, scrape, file, file down, grind, grind down, chip, shave, shear, wear down.

Friction

Verb: rub, scratch, scrape, scrub, slide, fray, rasp, graze, curry, scour, polish, rub out, wear down, gnaw; file, grind. (reduce to powder).

Crosswords: Wear Down

Moreover, the waves, I suspect, do not so much construct as wear down a material which has already acquired consistency.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "wear down": wear down at the heels. Additional references.

Albanian

vjetroj (age, date, wear out), sos durimin, lodh (badger, beat, fatigue, harass, irk, jade, overdo, overdrive, overstrain, overstrain oneself, strain, tire, try, Tucker, wear, wear out, work), harxhohet, hahet (pass, wane, wear out), dobësoj rezistencën. (various references)

Arabic 

‏أبلى (frazzle, molder, moulder, outwear, scuff, wear). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съсипвам (bust, prostrate, ruin, scathe, spifflicate, total, wear out, wrack), сломявам (beat down, break, dash), отслабям (abate, cripple, depauperate, ease, loosen, reduce, relax, remit, shake, weaken), износвам (fatigue, outwear, wear, wear out). (various references)

Czech

vypsat (dump smb., render), sešlapat, opotřebovat (Hackney, wear, wear out), ojezdit, ohodit, ochodit. (various references)

Dutch

inrijden (wear off, wear out), inrýden (wear off, wear out), afslijten (wear off, wear out), afslýten (abrade, wear away, wear off, wear out). (various references)

Esperanto

erodi (wear off, wear out). (various references)

Finnish

kuihduttaa (wear away). (various references)

French

user (wear, wear off, wear out), roder (wear off, wear out). (various references)

German

weich machen (soften, soften up, tenderize), sich abfahren, ablaufen (be up, comb, drain away, drain off, dry off, execute, expire, go off, lapse, pass, pass off, run, run away, run out, rundown, scour, unwind, walk off, walk over, wear out, wind down), abnutzen (consume, fray, outwear, to wear away, to wear out, use up, wear, wear out), abtreten (abdicate, cede, dismiss, give in, give up, give way, go off, hand over, make smb.'s exit, relinquish, resign, stamp off, step down, to cede, transfer, wear, wear out, yield, yield up), aufreiben (chafe, gnaw, reaming, rub sore, wear out, wipe out, worry), durchliegen (bedsore, decubitus ulcer), fertig machen (finish off), fix machen (buck up), abfahren (cruise, depart, drive away, drive off, go, leave, move off, pull out, roll, ski down, steam off, to depart, wear), schieftreten, zermürben (gnaw, grind down, make brittle, soften up, unnerve), sich ablaufen, sich abnutzen (fret, get worn out, wear, wear out), sich abtreten, sich verbrauchen, sich veschreiben, verbrauchen (burn, burn up, consume, consuming, dissipate, eat up, exhaust, expend, spend, to consume, to dissipate, use, use up, wear out), verschreiben (enter, make over, prescribe, transfer), mürbe machen (break, to wear down). (various references)

Greek 

φθείρω (corruptible, spoil, vitiate, waste, wear, wear away, wear out). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"חליש (abate, attenuate, deaden, detach, enervate, enfeeble, impair, slacken, weaken). (various references)

Hungarian

lekoptat (to abrade, to fray, to wear down, to wear off, wear off), elvékonyít (taper, to extenuate). (various references)

Italian

consumare (consume, corrode, drink, eat, erode, expend, fray, fret, outwear, scuff, spend, use, waste, wear, wear out, weather). (various references)

Pig Latin

earway ownday

Portuguese

reduzir (bate, boil down, curtail, cut, decrease, diminish, lessen, minify, minimize, restrict, retrench, scale, scrimp, shorten, sink, skimp, slash, to reduce, weaken, write off), esmerilar (basil, grind, wear off, wear out), diminuir (abridge, assuage, commute, cut down, dampen, decline, decrease, derogate, detract, diminish, dock, dwarf, dwindle, extenuate, fall, impair, lessen, lower, mince, minify, pass off, rebate, reduce, relax, retrench, shorten, shrink, sink, whittle), desgastar (abrade, chafe, corrode, fray, frazzle, fret, outwear, rub, wash out, waste, wear, wear off, wear out). (various references)

Romanian

uza (batter, fray, fret, hack, Hackney, kick out, outwear, utilize, waste, wear). (various references)

Russian 

стираться (evanesce, launder, wear away, wear off), стирать (delete, efface, erase, erasing, obliterate, rub, rub out, wash, wear away, wear off, wipe away, wipe off, wipe out, wipes, zap), утомлять (fag, irk, tire, wearies), изнашиваться (abrade, tear, wear, wear out), изнашивать (outwear, outwore, outworn, wear, wear out). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zbrisati (brush away, efface, wear away), pohabati (outwear, wear away), izlizati (outwear, wear away). (various references)

Spanish

rendir (conquer, defeat, frazzle, lay down, pay, subdue, surrender, take it out of smb., tire out, yield), gastarse (go to waste, waste, wear away, wear out, wear through), gastar (burn, cash, consume, expend, get through, go through, lay out, outwear, part with, pay out, play, run through, sink, spend, sport, squander, waste, wear, wear away, wear out, wear through), desgastarse (abrade, wear away, wear off, wear out, wear through, weather), desgastar (abrade, fray, fret, grind down, outwear, wear, wear away, wear out, weather), cansar hasta rendir, cansar (fag, fag out, fatigue, jade, overdrive, override, Pall, put off, strain, tire, tire out, try, weary), agotar (consume, deplete, distress, drain, exhaust, exhaust a well, expend, frazzle, gruel, impoverish, knock out, knock up, play out, sap, spend, take out, tire out, use up, waste, wear, work out). (various references)

Swedish

trötta ut (fatigue, jade), nöta ner, bli uttröttad. (various references)

Turkish

zayıflatmak (cripple, damp down, debilitate, emaciate, emasculate, enervate, evirate, fade, impair, impoverish, reduce, slim, soften, thin down, thin of, thin out, weaken, wear away), yenmek (annihilate, bear down, bear the bell, beat, beat all hollow, best, break, carry away the bell, checkmate, circumvent, clobber, confound, conquer, cut out, defeat, discomfit, down, floor, get the better of, give a beating, knock out, land, lick, master, outbox, outclass, outdo, outgo, overpower, pip, prevail, skunk, slam, smash, subjugate, surmount, swamp, thrash, trim, triumph, trounce, vanquish, wallop, whelm, whip, whop, win over, wipe the floor with smb., worst), yıpratmak (age, batter, chafe, corrode, fray, fray out, frazzle, fret, thumb, wear, wear away), yıpranmak (consume away, corrode, fray, fray out, frazzle, rub off, waste away, wear away, wear off, wear out), yıpramak, eskitmek (fret, ladder, outwear, wear away, wear off, wear out), eskimek (become old, date, frazzle, grow old, stale, wear away, wear off, wear out), devamlı ısrarla kırmak, aşınmak (be abraded, be eroded, chafe, consume away, fine away, fine down, fine off, fray, fray out, rub off, wash away, wash off, waste, waste away, wear away, wear off, wear out). (various references)

Ukrainian

зношувати (abrade, chafe, fray, wear), переборювати (bear, overpass, subdue, surmount, swallow down, tide over). (various references)

adesa, attero, attero, attritus, contritis, contrito, tenueris, tenues. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: downer, onward, redowa, wander, warden, warned, wonder.

-3 letters: adore, adorn, adown, anode, awned, dawen, denar, dewan, dewar, dower, drawn, drone, drown, endow, oared, oread, owned, owner, radon, redan, redon, rewan, rewon, rowan, rowed, rowen, wader, waned, wared, wowed.

-4 letters: aeon, aero, anew, awed, dare, darn, dawn, dean, dear, doer, dona, done, dore, down.

+2 letters: woodenware.

+3 letters: woodenwares.

+4 letters: downwardness.

+5 letters: northwestward.