Wear Off

Definition: Wear Off

Wear Off

Verb

1. Deteriorate through use or stress; "The constant friction wore out the cloth".

2. Diminish, as by friction; "Erosion wore away the surface".

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

Synonyms: Wear Off

Cessation

Come to a stand, come to a standstill; come to a deadlock, come to a full stop; arrive; go out, die away; wear away, wear off; pass away; (be past); be at an end; disintegrate, self-destruct.

Desuetude

Verb: be -unaccustomed; Adjective: leave off a habit, cast off a habit, break off a habit, wean oneself of a habit, violate a habit, break through a habit, infringe a habit, leave off a custom, cast off a custom, break off a custom, wean oneself of a custom, violate a custom, break through a custom, infringe a custom, leave off a usage, cast off a usage, break off a usage, wean oneself of a usage, violate a usage, break through a usage, infringe a usage; disuse; wear off.

Crosswords: Wear Off

Sleeping on the job: Boy, that cold medicine I took last night just won't wear off. (references; author: unknown)

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Health

The effects of a particular medication also sometimes wear off over time, leading to an increase in seizures if the dose is not adjusted. (references)

Babies sometimes have symptoms of withdrawal from the mother's seizure medication after they are born, but these problems wear off in a few weeks or months and usually do not cause serious or long-term effects. (references)

Other more troubling and distressing problems may occur with long-term levodopa use. Patients may begin to notice more pronounced symptoms before their first dose of medication in the morning, and they can feel when each dose begins to wear off (muscle spasms are a common effect). (references)

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Expression using "wear off": To wear off. Additional references.

Afrikaans

afslyt (abrade, wear, wear away, wear out). (various references)

Albanian

shuhem (be dying, burn out, die, die out, evanesce, expire, fade, fade out, fizzle out, vanish, wear away, wither), qetësohet dhimbja, konsumoj (burn, consume, use up, wear), del boja. (various references)

Arabic 

‏خاف (be afraid, be scared, fear, take fright), ‏إبتعد عن (drive out, forswear, give a wide berth to, keep away, keep off, steer clear of), ‏أرهب من. (various references)

Bulgarian 

доизносвам. (various references)

Czech

ztrácet se (die away, fade away, peter out), zanikat (sink), mizet (disappear, evanish, melt, melt away, wane). (various references)

Dutch

verslijten (use up, wear out), verslýten (abrade, use up, wear away, wear out), uitslijten (wear out), uitslýten (abrade, wear away, wear out), slijten (use up, wear out), slýten (abrade, use up, wear away, wear out), inrijden (wear down, wear out), inrýden (wear down, wear out), doorslijten (wear out), doorslýten (abrade, wear away, wear out), afslijten (wear down, wear out), afslýten (abrade, wear away, wear down, wear out). (various references)

Esperanto

erodi (wear down, wear out), eluziĝi (wear away, wear out). (various references)

French

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

German

vergehen (be about, blame, crime, delinquencies, delinquency, die, die away, elapse, fade, fading, fault, go by, guilt, malfeasance, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, misdoing, offense, pass, pass away, pass by, passing, slip away, swelter, to pass off), sich verlieren (tail off, trail away, trail off, vanish), sich legen (abate, blow out, blow over, clear, clear away, cool, die down, heel, let up, lie, lie down, pass, settle, subside, vanish), sich abwetzen (rub off), nachlassen (abate, abatement, bequeath, decrease, deteriorate, die away, die down, dim, diminish, discount, drop, ease, ease off, ease up, fade, fail, failure, fall, flag, go, intermit, knock off, lessen, letup, loosen, moderate, rebate, reduce, relax, relaxation, relent, remit, respite, sink, slack off, slacken, slacken off, softening, subside, tail off, take off, to abandon ship, to abate, to ease up, to intermit, to slacken, wane, waver, weaken), abklingen (abate, abatement, die away, fade, fade away, subside, to fade away), abgehen (abort, be deducted, be dispatched, come away, come off, depart, digress, exit, go off, jump down, lead off, leave, make a draft, pace out, part, pass out, patrol, rub off, sail, shift). (various references)

Greek 

φεύγω (buzz off, clear away, clear off, clear out, come away, drive away, drive off, flee, fleet, fly, get away, go away, go off, leave, pull out, run along, scurry, slope off, take oneself off). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"עלם ב�"�"ר�'�". (various references)

Hungarian

lekoptat (to abrade, to fray, to wear down, to wear off, wear down), elmosódik (fade, slur, to grow dim, to slur, to wear off). (various references)

Italian

togliere (decrease, disfranchise, free, get out, go away, lose weight, peel back, pick, pull, put, put off, quench, raise, relieve, remove, slim, strip, take, take away, take from, take off, take out, wipe away). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

冷める (to abate, to become cool, to subside, to wear off). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さめる (to abate, to awake, to become cool, to come down, to come to one's senses, to cool down, to dampen, to discolour, to fade, to get sober, to subside, to wake, to wake up, to wear off). (various references)

Manx

scryssey magh (abolishment, abolition, amortize, attrition, blot out, blur, blur as vision, delete, deletion, efface, erase, erasure, obliterate, obliteration, scratch out, scrub, shatter, strike off), lheie ersooyl (blow over, die out, dwindle, vanish, vanish as ice). (various references)

Pig Latin

earway offay

Portuguese

sair de moda (go out of fashion), passar (blow over, come, draw, drew, dub, elapse, fare, give in, go, go beyond, go by, hand, pass, pass by, rake, rake up, slip away, spend, strop, to pass, to spend, transfer, wile), esmerilar (basil, grind, wear down, wear out), desgastar (abrade, chafe, corrode, fray, frazzle, fret, outwear, rub, wash out, waste, wear, wear down, wear out), desaparecer gradualmente (fade, fade away, peter out). (various references)

Russian 

стираться (evanesce, launder, wear away, wear down), стирать (delete, efface, erase, erasing, obliterate, rub, rub out, wash, wear away, wear down, wipe away, wipe off, wipe out, wipes, zap), облезть (grow bare, peel off), проходить (come by, elapse, elapsed, get by, go, go by, go through, move on, pass, pass away, pass through, penetrate, permeate, roll by, walk, walked). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ugasiti se (go off, go out), nestati (come off, disappear, evanesce, evanish, fade away, go south), izbledeti (fade), istrošiti (use up), iščeznuti (disappear, dwindle, fade away, vanish). (various references)

Spanish

desgastarse (abrade, wear away, wear down, wear out, wear through, weather). (various references)

Swedish

avklinga (decay). (various references)

Turkish

yavaş yavaş azalmak, yıpranmak (consume away, corrode, fray, fray out, frazzle, rub off, waste away, wear away, wear down, wear out), hafiflemek (abate, become lighter, ease off, settle, sink, slow down), geçmek (abate, adjourn, be current, be over, be transmitted, be valid, beat, best, better, cap, catch, change to, clear, come down, cross, cut across, devolve, distance, elapse, exceed, Excel, expire, fit in, get through, go, go by, go down, go out, have outgrown smb., interlace, intervene, lapse, leave behind, negotiate, outdistance, outdo, outgo, outgrow, outpace, outrange, outrival, outrun, outstrip, pass, pass away, pass beyond, pass by, pass into, pass off, pass on, pass over, pass up, permeate, ride, rub on, run, run out, subside, surpass, top, tower above, track, transmigrate, turn), eskitmek (fret, ladder, outwear, wear away, wear down, wear out), eskimek (become old, date, frazzle, grow old, stale, wear away, wear down, wear out), 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 down, wear out), aşındırmak (abrade, attack, bite, corrode, eat, eat at, eat away, erode, fray, fray out, fret, gnaw into, wash, wash away, wash off, wear). (various references)

Ukrainian

минати (blow over, elapse, pass, roll by, skirt, waste), знищувати (abolish, annihilate, annul, blast, consume, crush, delete, demolish, efface, exterminate, extinguish, kill, kill off, neutralize, nullify, obliterate, outroot, overthrow, overturn, pull up, quell, root out, root up, rub out, scotch, sweep away, take off, torpedo, wither). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: afore, offer, wafer.

-3 letters: aero, fare, faro, fear, fora, fore, frae, froe, frow, raff, waff, ware, wear, wore.

-4 letters: aff, are, arf, awe, ear, eff, era, far, fer, few, foe, for, fro, oaf, oar, off, ora, ore, owe, raw, ref, roe, row, wae, war, woe.

-5 letters: ae, ar, aw, ef, er, fa, oe, of.

+2 letters: safflower.

+3 letters: foamflower, safflowers.

+4 letters: foamflowers.