wear off

verb

wore off; worn off; wearing off; wears off

: to gradually decrease, disappear, or stop

The painkillers wore off after a couple of hours.

The shine on the leather will wear off pretty quickly.

After you drive a new car for a while, the novelty wears off.

Examples of wear off in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

If one reverses unexpectedly or gets stuck near a crosswalk, the novelty wears off even faster. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 6 July 2026

What cotninues to matter, commercially, is whether customers come back when the novelty has worn off. — Lela London, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026

What to read next Once the initial excitement of weightlessness has worn off, the kids realize the true extent of their predicament. — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 27 June 2026

The charges and the questions By the late fall of his draft year, when the forks-down-celebration of opening weekend at Arizona State had worn off, some of the shine began to wear off as well. — Scott Wheeler, New York Times, 26 June 2026

Rhymes for wear off

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