Antonyms for wear downwear down

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1. • Deteriorate
   • Indispose

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1. tire, wear upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out, fag, fatigueverb

   exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress

   "We wore ourselves out on this hike"

   Synonyms:
   wear thin, exhaust, toil, play out, grind, dig, hold out, moil, tire, don, put on, endure, wear out, bore, pall, have on, assume, weary, break, fall apart, jade, tire out, wear upon, get into, bust, travail, drudge, labour, wear off, run down, outwear, sap, labor, fatigue, fag out, wear, bear

2. wear, wear off, wear out, wear down, wear thinverb

   deteriorate through use or stress

   "The constant friction wore out the cloth"

   Synonyms:
   wear thin, weary, hold out, wear upon, wear away, get into, wear, fatigue, have on, assume, put on, break, tire, wear off, wear out, fag out, bust, fall apart, outwear, don, tire out, bear, endure, jade

How to use wear down in a sentence?

1. Candace Gutierrez:

   It's a tribute to the care that they get with our staff, their wild counterparts do not live as long because again their teeth wear down, their eyesight changes, even their hearing and their skin is sensitive.

2. Geoffrey Allred:

   If you take care of [your down jacket] the right way, the down inside will outlast the fabric, it’s more than likely the fabric will start to fall apart and wear down faster than the down will if you give it the proper care it needs. And then, if you’re taking care of the fabric the right way too, theoretically, down jackets can be generational products.

3. Fire Department Captain Chad Whitlock:

   Emotionally, mentally, it's starting to really wear down on a lot of us, i wish people would really take Covid seriously for all the health care workers, firefighters, EMS crews, our hospital staff. We're inundated. Everybody's really tired. ... I've been here a long time with El Centro Fire Department -- 29 plus years. This is the worst I've seen it.

4. Paton Walsh:

   Airstrikes and special operations forces strikes do eventually wear down insurgencies, as we saw in Afghanistan.

5. Leo Feler:

   People have been paying off their credit cards very quickly during the pandemic, and that's starting to slow as people have started to wear down their buffer of excess savings.

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