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wear out

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wear someone out
to make someone very tired. Those kids wore their grandmother out. The journey wore him out, and he went straight to bed as soon as he got to the hotel.
See also: wear


wear out something
to use something so much that it can no longer be used. Randy's been cooking in a kitchen that's so old, almost everything in it has simply worn out. He wore out a pair of running shoes every three months.
Usage notes: sometimes used without something: On rough roads, tires wear out fast.
See also: wear

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Do not reason about it, my philosphical reader, and say that Hetty, being very pretty, must have known that it did not signify whether she had on any ornaments or not; and that, moreover, to look at ear- rings which she could not possibly wear out of her bedroom could hardly be a satisfaction, the essence of vanity being a reference to the impressions produced on others; you will never understand women's natures if you are so excessively rational.
They would be just the thing to take a long walk in, for they could not wear out.
The wings would wear out before they got half-way; even the pin-feathers would be gone; the wing frames would be as bare as kite sticks before the paper is pasted on.
 
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