wear off
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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)
- (intransitive) to diminish in effect
- The effect of the injection will gradually wear off.
- (intransitive) to disappear because of being abraded, over-polished, or abused
- The silver plating on that cheap silverware will wear off.
[edit] Translations
to diminish in effect