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wear away

verbcandidate·updated Jun 3, 2026

become ground down or deteriorate

MWE

Classifications

Cognitive

60%llm-generatedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Responsibility

Unclassifiedauthoritativetrigger_default_value
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Automation

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Variants

synonym
erodewear offwhittle awaywhittle down
pasttense
weared away
presentparticiple
wearing away
thirdpersonsingular
wears away
pastparticiple
weared away