wore (away)

past tense of wear (away)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for wore (away)
Verb
  • Foot bridges will be washed out in Supai Campground.
    Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The storm flooded creeks, toppled trees and washed out roads, especially in Cataloochee Valley, where all trails became impassable.
    Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • As the cone eroded over time, olivine crystals became concentrated in this area.
    Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The billionaire investor compared today's environment to the early 1970s, when inflation, heavy government spending and high debt loads eroded confidence in paper assets and fiat currencies.
    Yun Li, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • While in most places these efforts succeeded in the short term, over time the lived realities—particularly the everyday violence—of military rule undermined support for the royal cause, dooming efforts to resuscitate the British Empire in America.
    Time, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Whatever desire the audience might have to root for Kerr is undermined by his mounting failures in the ring and his growing friction with Dawn.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The death toll rose as thousands of soldiers scoured the destruction left in the wake of the receding waters, clearing roads blocked with trees and cars to rescue the missing.
    Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2025
  • In choosing the contestants, Ramsay scoured the country for the best home, pro and social media bakers, from different backgrounds and levels of expertise, according to Fox.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Sky’s friendship with her former Damage Control stablemates deteriorated in recent weeks as Sky’s relationship with Ripley has grown.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025
  • But as the issues with Prince Harry have reportedly been getting better in the last few months, with the two even meeting in person for the first time in over a year in September, the relationship with his oldest son and heir, Prince William, has reportedly deteriorated.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Nearly everything weakened, from Big Tech companies like Nvidia and Apple to stocks of smaller companies looking to get past uncertainty about tariffs and trade.
    Nino Paoli, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Eighteen packages of European Union sanctions and dozens more from the United States, United Kingdom and others have weakened Russia’s economy – but not its resolve to carry on fighting.
    Clare Sebastian, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
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“Wore (away).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wore%20%28away%29. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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