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wear off (third-person singular simple present wears off, present participle wearing off, simple past wore off, past participle worn off)

  1. (intransitive) to diminish in effect
    The effect of the injection will gradually wear off.
    • 1953 March, C. R. Clinker, “New Light on the Leicester Swannington Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 197:
      [] the decline in passengers was attributed to the uncertainty of the weather, but one suspects it was really due to the novelty of a ride on the railway having worn off.
  2. (intransitive) to disappear because of being abraded, over-polished, or abused
    The silver plating on that cheap silverware will wear off.

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