wear+out

  • 21wear out — 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 …

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  • 22wear out one's welcome —    If someone wears out their welcome, they stay too long as a guest, causing inconvenience to their host.     Alan and Sue invited us to stay on for a few days but we didn t want to wear out our welcome …

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  • 23wear out one's welcome — verb To behave in an offensive, burdensome, or tiresome manner, with the result that ones continued presence is unwanted within a residence, commercial establishment, or social group. No: he feared to wear out his welcome, he said: they had seen …

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  • 24wear out your welcome — stay or visit too long, not be welcome anymore    If we stay more than three days, we ll wear out our welcome …

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  • 25wear out one's welcome — idi wear out one s welcome, to make one s presence undesirable, as by visiting too often or by misbehaving …

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  • 26wear-out failure — triktis dėl susidėvėjimo statusas T sritis Standartizacija ir metrologija apibrėžtis Triktis dėl natūralių senėjimo, dilimo, korozijos ir nuovargio vyksmų, nors ir buvo laikomasi visų nustatytų projektavimo, gamybos ir naudojimo normų bei… …

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  • 27wear out — Synonyms and related words: ablate, abrade, beat, bugger, burden, burn out, crush one, debilitate, do in, do up, enervate, erode, exhaust, fag, fag out, fatigue, flag, flog, fray, frazzle, fret, harass, haunt, haunt the memory, hide, jade, knock… …

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  • 28wear\ out — v 1a. To use or wear until useless. Bobby got a toy truck that would run on a battery, and he used it so much that he soon wore it out. The stockings are so worn out that they can t be mended any more. Compare: give out(4), use up 1b. To become… …

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  • 29wear out — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. become worn, be worthless, exhaust; see decay , waste 1 , 3 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) I verb 1. To make extremely tired: exhaust, fag (out), tire out. Informal: knock out, tucker (out). Slang: do in, poop1 (out). Idioms:… …

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  • 30wear out — use or wear something until it becomes useless My shoes wore out during my trip to Paris …

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