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Wearing Away

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

(geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it)

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Classifications

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
wearing
plural
Wearing Aways
possessive
Wearing Away's
pluralpossessive
Wearing Aways'