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 This is a sign that internal parts like your clutch or transmission bands are wearing out. — Michael Kurko, USA Today, 17 Aug. 2026 Others share stories of donut tires wearing out quickly or making their vehicles feel unstable at highway speeds. — Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 7 Aug. 2026 Praedico lines up years of track data to give operators a single view of what is wearing out. — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026 Relaxed pants like this pair are perfect for a long bus tour through the countryside or for wearing out to dinner—they’ll look polished without feeling uncomfortable. — Erin Cavoto, Travel + Leisure, 17 July 2026 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wearing out
  1. wearing
  2. killing
  3. exhausting
  4. tiring
  5. burning out
  6. knocking out
  7. doing in
  8. washing out
Verb
  • For a decade, hundreds of Black women and girls have gathered in Kansas City wearing curls, coils, locs, braids and Afros for an annual photograph intended to challenge narrow ideas about what beautiful hair is supposed to look like.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Dixie D’Amelio sauntered in wearing a shimmering black Gucci dress.
    — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of wearing
Verb
  • California’s plan to save coastal homes from El Niño could end up killing beaches.
    — Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Attorneys for the men argued Harris fired the first shots, killing Turner and setting off the gun battle.
    — Daniel Hunt, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of killing
Verb
  • The gentle squeeze around your legs provides other surprising health benefits on exhausting travel days.
    — Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 27 Sep. 2026
  • Commanders should seek positional advantages without exhausting their soldiers, manipulate the enemy’s movements when possible, and recognize when circumstances make pursuit or attack unwise.
    — Ethan Teekah, Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of exhausting
Verb
  • In the Los Angeles Times, Seema Mehta and Nicole Nixon report that Steyer’s ability to appear everywhere ended up tiring out voters.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 10 June 2026
  • Meanwhile, Shenzhen startup EngineAI can be forgiven for tiring out its PM01 humanoid.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 7 June 2026
Definition of tiring
Verb
  • The candles are all different lengths, gradually burning out, and there’s no way of knowing how long each one is.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Ngy worked construction and fished in his free time, eventually burning out after too many layoffs and inconsistent work following the housing crash of 2008.
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of burning out
Verb
  • Residents of coastal communities in the Northeast slogged through floodwaters for a second day as a powerful nor’easter pummeled the shoreline Sunday, knocking out power to tens of thousands of homes.
    — Leah Willingham, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026
  • The southpaw then made a big statement knocking out former contender Dillian Whyte in the first round last year.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of knocking out
Verb
  • Basically, what Thiel’s doing in his Antichrist speeches is portraying our current predicament as an existential battle between good and evil.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Great leaders learn to recognize what a person may be capable of doing in the future.
    — Hao Lam, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of doing in
Verb
  • Even in blazing sunlight, the screen cuts right through the glare without washing out.
    — Kimberly Gedeon, PC Magazine, 30 Sep. 2026
  • The intense lunar spotlight casts significant glare across the cluster, heavily washing out its faint blue reflection nebulosity.
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of washing out

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“Wearing out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wearing%20out. Accessed 6 Oct. 2026.

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