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Synonyms for wear and tear
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Princeton's WordNet
depreciation, wear and tear(noun)
decrease in value of an asset due to obsolescence or use
Synonyms:
depreciation, disparagement, derogation
Words popularity by usage frequency
| rank | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #11906 | depreciation | |
| #56189 | derogation | |
| #144901 | disparagement |
How to use wear and tear in a sentence?
Failing to take care of ourselves actually compromises and hinders our effective caretaking of others, our nervous systems encounter more wear and tear. We get stressed out more easily.
We're starting to see more than general wear and tear. The seams are showing and you're seeing frayed edges. In some spots, it's so thread bear the underlying mat pokes through, it's been on the floor for more than 20 years. Someone did a calculation and figured about 300 million people have passed over it.
I had planned on getting her a new machine for graduation, but I believe that current college kids put an enormous stress on laptops these days, i have seen more wear and tear on laptops of college students than laptops of constant travelers in my office.
Depreciation for buildings that are not suffering wear and tear, that is a generous tax benefit, every developer gets that, but taking deductions on other people's money, that goes beyond what other real estate developers would do.
To better understand the process of forgiveness, it might be useful to step back and look at the process of holding on to anger, anger is a form of stress, and so when we hold on to anger it is as though we are turning on the body's stress response, or fight or flight response, chronically. We know that turning on this response chronically leads to wear and tear on the body.
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