wear thin

as inwear
as infray

Synonyms for wear thin

verb corrode, use

Antonyms for wear thin

Word Origin & History

"action of wearing" (clothes), mid-15c., from wear (v.). Meaning "what one wears" is 1570s. To be the worse for wear is attested from 1782; noun phrase wear and tear is first recorded 1660s, implying the sense "process of being degraded by use."

Example Sentences for wear thin

It is unwise to wear thin, transparent stockings on a cold day.

All the better, for we never could wear thin dresses out-of-doors in May!

Some campers like long German stockings, which serve also for leggings, and wear thin cotton socks inside them.

Elderly men, or those subject to rheumatism, will do well to wear thin flannel suits.

Under such circumstances tempers often wear thin, and a habit of bickering takes possession of a mess.

For the first rapture of the astonishing news was beginning to wear thin, and doubt was appearing in spots.

The hospitality of the Kentuckian is great and lasting, but even gold will wear thin in time.

We wear the dresses new in cold weather then they wear thin for summer.

Only you must believe, because I tell it you, that your mother's love will never grow old or wear thin.

It began to wear off and wear thin, first in one place and then in another, the rising sun helping to melt it.

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fraying

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