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Wear Thin


Synonyms: Wear Thin

Synonyms: wear (v), wear off (v), wear out (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Wear Thin

Specialty definitions using "wear thin": shim piece, success. (references)

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Modern Translations: Wear Thin

Language Translations for "wear thin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

absitzen (dismount, serve, serve out, sit out, to dismount, work out), abscheuern (rub off, scrub down, scrub off), abschaben (scrape clean, scrape off). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

擦れて薄くなる (to wear thin). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

すれてうすくなる (to wear thin). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

earway inthay

   

Turkish

  

gitgide zayıflamak, giderek azalmak. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Wear Thin

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-n-r-t-w"

-1 letter: hairnet, inearth, tawnier, tinware, writhen.

-2 letters: anther, hernia, hinter, ratine, retain, retina, thawer, thenar, thrawn, twiner, wahine, waiter, wanier, wanter, whiner, whiten, whiter, winter, wither, wraith, wreath, writhe.

-3 letters: airth, antre, earth, entia, hater, heart, inert, inter, irate, ither, neath, niter, nitre, rathe, rawin, retia, rewan, rewin, riant, tawer, tawie, tenia, terai, thane.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-h-i-n-r-t-w"
 

+1 letter: handwrite, nightwear, wreathing.

 

+2 letters: handwrites, weathering.

 

+3 letters: enwreathing, handwritten, kitchenware, nightwalker, swarthiness, unwreathing, weatherings.

 

+4 letters: cartwheeling, heartwarming, kitchenwares, nightwalkers, waterishness, watermanship, weatherizing.

 

+5 letters: airworthiness, mouthwatering, seaworthiness, swarthinesses, watermanships, withdrawnness, woolgathering.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Wear Thin


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 65 61 72      54 68 69 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01100101 01100001 01110010 00100000 01010100 01101000 01101001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#101 &#97 &#114 &#32 &#84 &#104 &#105 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0065 0061 0072      0054 0068 0069 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

57716784254747580

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