wear away, v.
become ground down or deteriorate
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"Her confidence eroded"verb frames
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diminish, as by friction
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wear away wear off
sample sentences
"Erosion wore away the surface"verb frames
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hyponym
cut away in small pieces
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wear away whittle away whittle down
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