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wear and tear

noun as in devaluation due to use

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Example Sentences

You also want to inspect the blanket for any wear and tear or visible damage.

It enables nature to recruit its strength; whereas worry and discontent debilitate it, involving constant wear-and-tear.

Quiriquina, than the ordinary wear-and-tear of the sea and weather during the course of a whole century.

Even the London scenery is faithfully reproduced in material of extra strength, to stand the wear-and-tear of constant removal.

The wear-and-tear of rust is even faster than the tear-and-wear of work.

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On this page you'll find 19 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to wear and tear, such as: depletion, depreciation, erosion, ablation, attrition, and consumption.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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