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wore off

vb. (en-simple pastwear off)

Usage examples of "wore off".

Francisco had initially found the Americans' unpretentious ways amusing, but lately more than a bit exasperating as the shock of their arrival wore off and Europe's power-brokers lapsed back into old habits of confusing ostentation with authority.

As her stiffness wore off, and her muscles and lungs began to respond to the exercise, Bisesa found herself losing her thoughts in the simple physical repetition of the walk.

The truth was that as the decades peeled away on Earth, and the novelty wore off, nobody much cared about the star travelers—.

It wasn't at all bad, and much of the stiffness in Jerym's thighs wore off.

The spell wore off eventually, of course, but by then Vidal was taken up with other things.

Sam, hosting it to the full, saw to it that nobody wore off even for a minute.