WEARING OUT Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

wearing out

verb

present participle of wear out

as in wearing

to use up all the physical energy of keeping up with twin toddlers wears me out

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Recent Examples of wearing out Made from high-quality, sustainable materials, Crushgrind mills are designed to last for years without clogging, rusting, or wearing out. — ABC News, 10 July 2026 Banging, rattling, grinding, squealing, or buzzing noises often indicate that something inside the system is loose, damaged, or wearing out. — Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 29 June 2026 The chiptune soundtrack is energetic without wearing out its welcome, and the writing keeps things light with short diary entries and snarky bits of dialogue. — Jason Bennett, Arkansas Online, 28 June 2026 One is something breaking, something wearing out, something being damaged through use, and then there’s also collision. — Joel Feder, The Drive, 10 June 2026 As plastics break down, whether that be through washing polyester clothing or wearing out our tires, microscopic particles of plastic shed, small enough to be picked up and transported by the air. — Simmone Shah, Time, 7 May 2026 If a device frequently drops connection and can be fixed with a wiggle, there’s a good chance something is wearing out in the cable. — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026 Time is short, our aging Mother Colorado River is simply wearing out. — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 25 Apr. 2026 Around 80% or lower means the battery is wearing out. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 31 Mar. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for wearing out

Verb

Doctors Without Borders health workers wearing personal protective equipment move through the isolated red zone to monitor patients, provide medical care and ensure sanitation at the Ebola Treatment Center in Munigi in Congo on June 2, 2026.

— Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 6 July 2026
Rodríguez Castro can be seen wearing a New York Yankees shirt, moving suggestively to driving percussive beats, punctuated by catchy, syncopated vocals.

— Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 6 July 2026

Definition of wearing

Verb

In that case, authorities believe the mother was responsible for slaying the family and then killing herself.

— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2026
Critics didn’t shy away from directly accusing Starmer’s government of essentially killing pensioners.

— Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 11 July 2026

Definition of killing

Verb

The two young women at the center of the chamber piece that is Fruit Gathering face more challenges than hard work in a monotonous environment, including exhausting work, economic uncertainty and social repression.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 8 July 2026
This convergence is a very encouraging sign, providing the first footprint of a structural trend change and indicating that the selling pressure from the recent rug pull is finally exhausting itself.

— Nishant Pant, CNBC, 7 July 2026

Definition of exhausting

Verb

Pictures posted online showed a fire burning out of control at the top of the building on the central Shevchenko Boulevard.

— Reuters, NBC news, 2 July 2026
Generation Z came up with active-shooter drills, a pandemic that shut down their schools, climate dread, nonstop digital comparison, shaky job markets, and a front-row view of older workers burning out.

— Mark Murphy, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026

Definition of burning out

Verb

Spain beat France, 2-0, in Tuesday’s semifinal in Arlington, Texas, knocking out perhaps the tournament’s best player, Kylian Mbappé, and one of the defining powers of modern World Cup soccer.

— Rick Maese, Washington Post, 14 July 2026
Rodrigues bounced back from that knockout loss with three straight wins, knocking out Denis Tiuliulin.

— Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026

Definition of knocking out

Verb

Daeron has not yet appeared in House of the Dragon but is mentioned in the second season’s sixth episode when Alicent asks her brother Gwayne (Freddie Fox) how Daeron is doing in Oldtown.

— Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 22 June 2026
Instead of independently designing and optimizing individual components and then connecting and calibrating them, GM can now simultaneously balance airflow and refrigerant behavior with cabin comfort, doing in days or hours what used to take months or weeks.

— Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 1 June 2026

Definition of doing in

Verb

Then came this spring’s historic and devastating floods across northern Michigan — in some areas, for the first time anyone can remember — swamping homes, pushing dams to the brink of failure and washing out roadways.

— Tammy Webber, Fortune, 23 June 2026
Then came this spring's historic and devastating floods across northern Michigan — in some areas, for the first time anyone can remember — swamping homes, pushing dams to the brink of failure and washing out roadways.

— CBS News, CBS News, 22 June 2026