"wear away" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wears away",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wearing away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wore away",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "worn away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "wear<,,wore,worn> away"
      },
      "expansion": "wear away (third-person singular simple present wears away, present participle wearing away, simple past wore away, past participle worn away)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (away)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 17",
          "text": "As the sensitiveness which greeted my new position wore away, I began to rather like the freedom of my new character.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I, chapter xvii",
          "text": "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."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To erode gradually and progressively."
      ],
      "id": "en-wear_away-en-verb-axqqQrqf",
      "links": [
        [
          "erode",
          "erode"
        ],
        [
          "gradually",
          "gradually"
        ],
        [
          "progressively",
          "progressively"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "erode gradually",
          "word": "hivuttaa"
        },
        {
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "erode gradually",
          "word": "rafar"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "erode gradually",
          "word": "consumarsi"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "suriheru",
          "sense": "erode gradually",
          "tags": [
            "intransitive"
          ],
          "word": "擦り減る"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "suriherasu",
          "sense": "erode gradually",
          "tags": [
            "transitive"
          ],
          "word": "擦り減らす"
        },
        {
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "erode gradually",
          "word": "terō"
        },
        {
          "code": "rgn",
          "lang": "Romagnol",
          "sense": "erode gradually",
          "tags": [
            "figuratively"
          ],
          "word": "limêr"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wear away"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wears away",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wearing away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wore away",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "worn away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "wear<,,wore,worn> away"
      },
      "expansion": "wear away (third-person singular simple present wears away, present participle wearing away, simple past wore away, past participle worn away)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (away)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 17",
          "text": "As the sensitiveness which greeted my new position wore away, I began to rather like the freedom of my new character.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I, chapter xvii",
          "text": "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."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To erode gradually and progressively."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "erode",
          "erode"
        ],
        [
          "gradually",
          "gradually"
        ],
        [
          "progressively",
          "progressively"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "erode gradually",
      "word": "hivuttaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "erode gradually",
      "word": "rafar"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "erode gradually",
      "word": "consumarsi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "suriheru",
      "sense": "erode gradually",
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "word": "擦り減る"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "suriherasu",
      "sense": "erode gradually",
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "word": "擦り減らす"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "erode gradually",
      "word": "terō"
    },
    {
      "code": "rgn",
      "lang": "Romagnol",
      "sense": "erode gradually",
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ],
      "word": "limêr"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wear away"
}