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wore out

vb. (en-simple pastwear out)

Usage examples of "wore out".

Card playing had sufficed to pass away the hours at first, but our cards soon wore out, and deprived us of this resource.

Karen always assumed that her father, who did something or other he never talked about in local government and dressed in the same grey suit for work every day until it wore out when he bought another identical one, just never made enough money to run the house properly.

Perhaps they even wore out from too much use, and the one she knew was centuries old, one of Inisso’.

Day after day they wore out their sandals on the endless straight roads of the Impire.

Coleman almost wore out his arms holding in check his impetuous horse.

These they shot, or trapped in pitfalls, using the flesh for food, and, after their clothes wore out, the hides for clothing.