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Wear away

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  1. 1
    To erode gradually and progressively.

    "As the sensitiveness which greeted my new position wore away, I began to rather like the freedom of my new character."

  2. 2
    become ground down or deteriorate wordnet
  3. 3
    diminish, as by friction wordnet
  4. 4
    cut away in small pieces wordnet

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