wear out
WEAR OUT
usu deterere or conterere (e.g. a garment): extenuare (to make lean; e.g. corpus alicujus): exedere (to enfeeble). Fever wears away the limbs febris depascitur artus (Verg. Geo. 3 458): grief wears away the heart aegritudo exest animum: ☞ obterere exercitum to wear out for consumere is a poetic phrase of Tac. and Curt.; not to be imitated. Vid: also EXHAUST.
usu deterere or conterere (e.g. a garment): extenuare (to make lean; e.g. corpus alicujus): exedere (to enfeeble). Fever wears away the limbs febris depascitur artus (Verg. Geo. 3 458): grief wears away the heart aegritudo exest animum: ☞ obterere exercitum to wear out for consumere is a poetic phrase of Tac. and Curt.; not to be imitated. Vid: also EXHAUST.