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Verb wear off has 2 senses
- wear, wear off, wear out, wear thin - deteriorate through use or stress; "The constant friction wore out the cloth"
--1 is one way to deteriorate
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- wear away, wear off - diminish, as by friction; "Erosion wore away the surface"
--2 is one way to remove, take, take away, withdraw
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
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