as in to wear
to use up all the physical energy of
keeping up with twin toddlers wears me out
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Recent Examples of wear out
Lounge pants: $37.99 Lounge pants can be used for their intended purpose, lounging, or many look stylish enough to wear out and about.
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Christopher Murray, Fox News, 22 Oct. 2024
For Cleaning Your Cutting Board When used often, cutting boards can begin to wear out over time and may even start to emit an odor.
—Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2024
Over the years, just like the suspension bridge, portions of the spine can wear out.
—Richard Menger Md Mpa, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
Drivers passed out, engines wore out and tires melted.
—Naheed Rajwani-Dharsi, Axios, 17 Oct. 2024
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Christopher Murray, Fox News, 22 Oct. 2024
For Cleaning Your Cutting Board When used often, cutting boards can begin to wear out over time and may even start to emit an odor.
—Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2024
Over the years, just like the suspension bridge, portions of the spine can wear out.
—Richard Menger Md Mpa, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
Drivers passed out, engines wore out and tires melted.
—Naheed Rajwani-Dharsi, Axios, 17 Oct. 2024
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The main event will be eight, two-minute rounds instead of 10 or 12 three-minute rounds and both fighters will wear 14-ounce gloves rather than 10-ounce gloves.Greg Rosenstein, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
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The uniforms will be worn for six regular-season home games in total.Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 14 Nov. 2024
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Finally, as is obvious to most observers, Israel cannot kill its way out of the threat posed by Hamas and other armed Palestinian factions.John Spencer, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
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Dwight won’t budge from 25 percent because Bill’s men killed Dwight’s guy Jimmy the Creek, but that particular door of violence swings both ways and a reasonable person might just take the deal to avoid more dead Jimmy the Creeks.Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2024
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With Ortiz in the mix that’s sufficient ammo in a large field, especially if the prospect of a duel between the top two horses winds up tiring those two out.Guy Martin, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
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The long, frustrating phone call had tired my mother out.Yukio Mishima, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024
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The divisive race has left Americans exhausted and on edge, Sonoma State Political Science Professor David McCuan said.Julia Prodis Sulek, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
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Javonte Williams, Running Back Williams, 24, came to Denver with high expectations after the team exhausted a second-round pick on the North Carolina product back in 2021.Vincent Frank, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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This approach is exhausting and drains the limited willpower we are meant to conserve.Shane Enete, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
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During testing, the charger’s battery was drained to half after just an hour of being plugged into a smartphone, and the phone itself was only powered to around 60 percent battery.Camryn Rabideau, People.com, 19 Nov. 2024
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When Berry suffered a brain aneurysm and left the band, burned out and artistically spent, in 1997, R.E.M. carried on as a trio, but its sales dwindled and so did its zeitgeist-y buzz.Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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While being an informed citizen who's up to date on the race and the candidates' stances and plans is admirable, there is such a thing as burning out on political news when the election is so emotional and heated.Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
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