Main Entry: wear out

Function: verb

Date: 14th century

transitive verb

1 : tire, exhaust
2 : to make useless especially by long or hard usage
3 : erase, efface
4 : to endure through : outlast <wear out a storm>
5 : to consume (as time) tediously <wear out idle days>intransitive verb : to become useless from long or excessive wear or use