wear away

English

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

To erode gradually and progressively.
- M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated by Mahadev Desai, Part I, chapter xvii^[1]:
  I stopped taking the sweets and condiments I had got from home. The mind having taken a different turn, the fondness for condiments wore away, and I now relished the boiled spinach which in Richmond tasted insipid, cooked without condiments. Many such experiments taught me that the real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind.

erode gradually