Definitions for wear down
wear down

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1. tire, wear upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out, fag, fatigueverb

   exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress

   "We wore ourselves out on this hike"

2. wear, wear off, wear out, wear down, wear thinverb

   deteriorate through use or stress

   "The constant friction wore out the cloth"

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1. wear downverb

   To cause (someone) physical or mental fatigue.

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1. wear down

   To wear down means to gradually reduce or weaken the strength, thickness, or value of something through continuous pressure, use, or over time. It can also refer to the process of making someone feel exhausted or deplete their energy or enthusiasm through relentless pressure or stress.

Matched Categories

1. • Deteriorate
   • Indispose

How to pronounce wear down?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of wear down in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of wear down in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of wear down in a Sentence

1. Leo Feler:

   People have been paying off their credit cards very quickly during the pandemic, and that's starting to slow as people have started to wear down their buffer of excess savings.

2. Candace Gutierrez:

   It's a tribute to the care that they get with our staff, their wild counterparts do not live as long because again their teeth wear down, their eyesight changes, even their hearing and their skin is sensitive.

3. Fire Department Captain Chad Whitlock:

   Emotionally, mentally, it's starting to really wear down on a lot of us, i wish people would really take Covid seriously for all the health care workers, firefighters, EMS crews, our hospital staff. We're inundated. Everybody's really tired. ... I've been here a long time with El Centro Fire Department -- 29 plus years. This is the worst I've seen it.

4. Paton Walsh:

   Airstrikes and special operations forces strikes do eventually wear down insurgencies, as we saw in Afghanistan.

5. Geoffrey Allred:

   If you take care of [your down jacket] the right way, the down inside will outlast the fabric, it’s more than likely the fabric will start to fall apart and wear down faster than the down will if you give it the proper care it needs. And then, if you’re taking care of the fabric the right way too, theoretically, down jackets can be generational products.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=wear down
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wear_Down
3. ^ ChatGPT
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