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What is another word for
wearing away
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Verb
Present participle for to erode gradually and progressively
(
usually of a disease or condition
)
Present participle for to affect adversely
Present participle for to erode or corrode gradually
Present participle for to consume or deplete gradually
Present participle for to scrape or wear away by friction or erosion
Present participle for to gradually exhaust or drain away
Present participle for to cause to lose energy or become physically weaker
(
of a person or a part of the body
)
Present participle for to become progressively weaker and more emaciated
Present participle for to deteriorate or go into decline, especially physically
Present participle for to come or fall away from a surface in flakes
Noun
The process of wearing away, typically by friction
The act or process of vanishing (from view)
Adjective
Experiencing difficulties and likely to fail
… more ▼
▲
Verb
▲
Present participle for to erode gradually and progressively
eroding
wearing down
eating away at
wearing out
weakening
diminishing
eating into
chipping away at
decreasing
lessening
reducing
mitigating
moderating
degrading
curtailing
curbing
depreciating
abating
dampening
quelling
depressing
diluting
attenuating
blunting
cutting
tapering
deadening
impairing
shrinking
decrementing
alleviating
easing
minimizing
US
allaying
restraining
waning
lowering
subsiding
contracting
downsizing
palliating
lightening
muffling
damping
ebbing
muting
dwindling
de-escalating
softening
winding down
tailing off
cutting down
easing off
subduing
cutting back
toning down
cushioning
taking the edge off
squelching
stifling
soothing
taking the bite out
minimising
UK
dulling
taking the sting out
assuaging
petering out
abasing
putting a damper on
rolling back
smothering
more ❯
“The woman in the darkness could hear him laughing and talking with a guest who was striving to
wear away
a dull evening by dozing in a chair by the office door.”
Verb
▲
(
usually of a disease or condition
)
Present participle for to affect adversely
attacking
infecting
affecting
damaging
injuring
corrupting
devastating
vitiating
afflicting
crippling
destroying
contaminating
marring
ruining
spoiling
annihilating
demolishing
impairing
ravaging
troubling
compromising
impacting
overcoming
touching
harming
striking
breaking
influencing
perturbing
sabotaging
tainting
upsetting
defiling
occurring
polluting
prevailing
crushing
hurting
overwhelming
poisoning
blighting
debasing
impinging
weakening
impacting on
impinging upon
prevailing over
shaking up
spreading to
striking at
striking down
doing damage to
playing havoc with
taking hold of
wreaking havoc on
exerting influence on
having an effect on
having an impact on
undermining
diminishing
reducing
eroding
sapping
threatening
emasculating
hindering
impeding
enfeebling
shaking
consuming
subverting
whittling
whittling away
eating away
defacing
blemishing
wrecking
mangling
smashing
vandalizing
US
trashing
shattering
desecrating
gutting
undoing
endamaging
totaling
tarnishing
flawing
staining
totalling
crabbing
disrupting
bloodying
smirching
blotting
disfeaturing
razing
sullying
banging up
stabbing
crossing up
lacerating
abusing
splitting
scratching
cracking
scathing
dismantling
vandalising
UK
dirtying
driving a nail into the coffin of
maltreating
playing merry hell with
delivering a blow to
tearing
disintegrating
smashing up
gnawing
bleaching
tampering with
knocking
discoloring
US
fading
discolouring
UK
corroding
rusting
rotting
wronging
scorching
burning
denting
swaying
controlling
shaping
biasing
US
biassing
UK
deciding
determining
guiding
inspiring
forming
acting on
working on
altering
governing
impressing
moving
reaching
modifying
conditioning
hitting
dictating
transforming
changing
motivating
stirring
moulding
UK
winning over
telling on
making an impression on
molding
US
persuading
disturbing
regulating
manipulating
fazing
prompting
directing
convincing
hitting hard
ruling
inducing
stimulating
knocking back
emotionally moving
impressing on
bearing upon
getting to
predisposing
acting upon
prevailing on
carrying
constraining
interacting with
working
underlying
exciting
shepherding
disposing
being a factor in
animating
having a bearing on
forecasting
bearing on
getting through
getting through to
registering with
carrying weight with
drawing
capturing
impelling
turning
prejudicing
spurring
selling
colouring
UK
slanting
inclining
jaundicing
converting
urging
bringing in
leading by the nose
bringing round
conducting
sucking in
coloring
US
turning one's head
nobbling
hooking
putting across
twisting one's arm
bending
brainwashing
talking round
softening up
traumatizing
US
shocking
arousing
affecting badly
channeling
US
channelling
UK
disadvantaging
leaving a mark on
knocking sideways
traumatising
UK
leaving a mark
impinging on
making an impact
making someone suffer
bringing to bear
talking into
arguing into
instigating
pulling strings
seducing
training
having a part in
getting at
rousing
carrying weight
grieving
distressing
saddening
paining
involving
agitating
concerning
throwing
bowling over
relating
regarding
interesting
marking
knocking for six
going to your head
turning someone's head
tugging at your heartstrings
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to erode or corrode gradually
eating away
eroding
corroding
rotting
wearing down
eating into
grinding down
whittling away
eating away at
destroying
consuming
abrading
undermining
dissolving
gnawing
eating
impairing
fretting
wasting
wearing
chipping away at
gnawing away at
rusting
nibbling
biting
gnawing away
biting at
biting into
weakening
damaging
diminishing
deteriorating
sapping
spoiling
burning into
taking its toll
chipping away
wasting away
crumbling
disintegrating
decaying
oxidizing
US
decomposing
corrupting
scouring
melting
burning through
doing a number on
devouring
wearing out
oxidising
UK
distressing
undercutting
exhausting
dissipating
liquefying
running through
worn through
searing
engraving
etching
burning
washing away
denuding
overusing
breaking down
ablating
vaporising
UK
scraping away
vaporizing
US
weathering
lessening
breaking up
attacking
tarnishing
oxidating
cankering
flaking
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to consume or deplete gradually
eating into
eroding
consuming
reducing
gnawing
depleting
using up
Verb
▲
Present participle for to scrape or wear away by friction or erosion
abrading
scraping
chafing
rasping
scratching
eroding
rubbing
grazing
wearing
fraying
corroding
scuffing
skinning
excoriating
frazzling
grinding
scouring
grating
filing
corrading
flaying
stripping
roughening
fretting
galling
irritating
triturating
erasing
wearing down
biting into
eating away at
scraping away
grinding down
gnawing away at
wearing off
rubbing off
scraping out
wearing out
tattering
wearing thin
rubbing down
becoming worn
worn through
unraveling
US
unravelling
UK
shredding
tearing
distressing
buffing
becoming ragged
becoming tattered
coming apart
impairing
sanding
sandpapering
eating away
becoming threadbare
polishing
brushing
dragging
smoothing
nibbling
lacerating
gnawing
honing
eating
biting at
making ragged
burnishing
wearing threadbare
barking
peeling
damaging
consuming
wearing to shreds
wasting
dissolving
deteriorating
crumbling
using
decaying
undermining
fading
overusing
bothering
taxing
weathering
overworking
rubbing away
gnawing away
washing away
crumbling away
wasting away
grinding away
ripping
raveling
US
ravelling
UK
scraping off
cutting down
using up
going to seed
going through
going into holes
rubbing raw
cutting
razing
scoring
wounding
etching
shaving
paring
nicking
scarifying
pinching
hurting
scrubbing
burning
rubbing against
rubbing painfully
devouring
husking
spoiling
hulling
decorticating
shucking
shelling
eating into
thinning
flaking
snicking
peeling away
stripping away
breaking the skin of
furbishing
shaping
refining
levelling
UK
leveling
US
finishing
incising
gashing
gouging
grooving
marking
scrabbling
pricking
making a mark on
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to gradually exhaust or drain away
wearing down
draining
depleting
dissipating
eroding
exhausting
bleeding
impoverishing
sapping
straining
undermining
overcoming
bleeding dry
chipping away at
slowly diminishing
slowly lessening
slowly reducing
gradually overcoming
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cause to lose energy or become physically weaker
sapping
attenuating
eroding
undermining
debilitating
devitalizing
enervating
etiolating
impairing
reducing
weakening
enfeebling
vitiating
lessening
lowering
subverting
tiring
blunting
crippling
destroying
disabling
prostrating
ruining
softening
wasting
wrecking
eating away
wearing down
depleting
exhausting
fatiguing
draining
incapacitating
indisposing
knackering
paralysing
UK
diminishing
paralyzing
US
shattering
immobilizing
US
torpefying
emasculating
handicapping
immobilising
UK
wearing out
making weak
laying low
making feeble
doing in
knocking out
Verb
▲
(
of a person or a part of the body
)
Present participle for to become progressively weaker and more emaciated
wasting
atrophying
decaying
withering
declining
shrinking
degenerating
deteriorating
fading
flagging
languishing
moldering
US
mouldering
UK
rotting
waning
wilting
becoming emaciated
crumbling
growing weak
perishing
shriveling up
disappearing
thinning
dwindling
ebbing
diminishing
lessening
abating
petering out
subsiding
sinking
weakening
decreasing
slackening
tailing off
running low
dropping
contracting
slumping
lowering
depreciating
receding
reducing
easing
moderating
tapering
quelling
drooping
settling
devaluating
evaporating
falling off
dying away
letting up
wearing down
falling away
dying down
tapering off
growing less
dropping off
falling
relenting
plummetting
plummeting
plunging
lightening
curbing
quieting
decrementing
curtailing
checking
shrivelling
UK
softening
restraining
shriveling
US
palling
dying
calming down
running out
ratcheting down
slacking off
becoming smaller
drying up
melting away
de-escalating
phasing down
losing edge
growing smaller
slowing down
dying out
becoming less
narrowing down
downscaling
tempering
downsizing
depressing
minimizing
US
depleting
denting
remitting
slackening off
winding down
turning down
paring down
making less
toning down
knocking down
minimising
UK
draining away
decimating
blurring
vanishing
dissolving
stopping
retrograding
bating
losing its effectiveness
growing faint
growing dim
coming to an end
coming to nothing
losing its effect
going away
coming to a halt
losing intensity
fizzling out
wearing off
losing strength
easing off
going downhill
going down
fading out
slashing
draining
rebating
modifying
petering
cutting down
tailing away
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to deteriorate or go into decline, especially physically
failing
declining
degenerating
deteriorating
diminishing
fading
flagging
regressing
atrophying
retrograding
retrogressing
collapsing
depreciating
disimproving
ebbing
spoiling
drooping
sickening
stagnating
withering
disintegrating
dwindling
falling
languishing
wasting
crumbling
degrading
rotting
sliding
vitiating
debasing
debilitating
sinking
weakening
perishing
sagging
slipping
slumping
devolving
lagging
lapsing
wilting
going
worsening
decaying
dilapidating
dropping
emaciating
impairing
putrefying
waning
becoming debilitated
going downhill
going backwards
becoming worse
falling apart
breaking down
wasting away
getting worse
going bad
growing worse
losing quality
breaking up
going to pot
hitting the skids
falling to pieces
going into decline
going to pieces
falling apart at the seams
going down the toilet
decomposing
corroding
moldering
US
molding
US
mouldering
UK
shrivelling
UK
shriveling
US
shriveling up
moulding
UK
descending
lowering
skidding
breaking
alloying
adulterating
going to the dogs
going down the tubes
going to rack and ruin
going to the pack
losing it
festering
corrupting
fouling
curdling
turning
mortifying
sphacelating
mildewing
necrotizing
suppurating
sapping
discoloring
US
defiling
blighting
discolouring
UK
becoming contaminated
going off
growing moldy
backsliding
falling off
relapsing
reverting
retroceding
receding
returning
retreating
nosediving
subsiding
fading away
going back
petering out
falling away
going from bad to worse
taking a turn for the worse
escalating
moving backward
faltering
tumbling
drifting
suffering
contracting
depressing
palling
damaging
petering
slackening
dropping off
going down the tube
tapering off
appearing in a poor light
taking a nosedive
tailing off
giving way
giving in
making something worse
fading out
pejorating
giving up
becoming dilapidated
going to seed
falling into disrepair
running to seed
recidivating
reaching depths
hitting rock bottom
coming apart at the seams
slipping back
falling back
drifting back
sinking back
moving back
turning back
losing headway
throwing back
turning the clock back
losing ground
rolling back
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to come or fall away from a surface in flakes
flaking
blistering
desquamating
exfoliating
shedding
chipping
peeling
crumbling
delaminating
dropping
paring
scaling
slicing
trimming
peeling off
coming off
scaling off
chipping off
coming off in layers
Noun
▲
The process of wearing away, typically by friction
attrition
erosion
corrosion
corroding
undermining
waste
damaging
deterioration
detrition
wearing
depreciation
disintegration
eating away
thinning
wear
thinning out
natural wastage
slow destruction
abrasion
wearing down
weathering
consumption
abrading
friction
excoriation
weakening
wear and tear
sapping
grinding down
trituration
filing
scraping
decay
chafing
grating
rubbing
loss
debilitation
spoiling
destruction
dissolving
dissolution
crumbling
rotting
scuffing
corrasion
scratching
attenuation
decrease
despoliation
desedimentation
scouring
stripping
enfeebling
gnawing away
scraping away
chipping away
wasting away
washing away
harrying
being eaten away
depletion
dissipation
ablation
overuse
decrement
hard wear
ravages of time
degeneration
diminution
oxidation
oxidization
US
subversion
damage
decomposition
wastage
rust
dilapidation
impairment
oxidisation
UK
dwindling
diminishment
battering
a few knocks
more ❯
Noun
▲
The act or process of vanishing (from view)
vanishment
disappearance
disintegration
dematerialization
evanescence
disappearing
dispersal
ebbing
evaporation
vanishing
fading
dissipation
dissolution
passing
receding
wane
eclipse
melting
fading away
fading from view
melting away
ceasing to exist
fade-out
passing from sight
disappearing act
receding from view
disappearing trick
loss
dispelling
escape
vaporization
US
vaporisation
UK
departure
exit
desertion
departing
leaving
leave-taking
dying out
Adjective
▲
Experiencing difficulties and likely to fail
on the rocks
deteriorating
languishing
collapsing
crumbling
failing
in trouble
in decline
in difficulty
in a bad way
in disrepair
in pieces
in ruins
in tatters
beyond repair
breaking down
breaking up
done for
falling apart
in a bad state
on the decline
falling to pieces
on its last legs
on the way out
practically over
in a state of disrepair
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wearing away
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