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===verb transitive===

Of clothes, weapons, etc.: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[φορεῖν]], [[ἔχειν]].

[[wear arms]]: (absol.) [[prose|P.]] [[σιδηροφορεῖν]] (or mid.).

[[wear out]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[τρίβειν]], [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[κατατρίβειν]].

Met.; see [[weary]].

[[worn by chariot wheels]]: [[verse|V.]] [[ἐπημαξευμένος τροχοῖσι]] ([[Sophocles]], ''[[Antigone]]'' 251); see [[beaten]].

[[wear away]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[τρίβειν]]. [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[κατατρίβειν]]. 

===verb intransitive===

[[last]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ἀντέχειν]]; see [[last]].

[[wear away]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[τρίβεσθαι]]. [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[κατατρίβεσθαι]].

[[wear off]], [[pass away]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ἀπορρεῖν]], [[διαρρεῖν]]; see [[fade]].

[[wear out]] ([[clothes]]): [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[κατατρίβειν]].

[[exhaust]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[τρύχειν]] (only pass. in [[prose|P.]]), [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[ἀποκναίειν]], [[κατατρίβειν]]. [[prose|P.]] [[ἐκτρυχοῦν]], [[τρίβειν]],[[verse|V.]] [[τρύειν]] (pass. also in [[Plato]] but rare [[prose|P.]]), [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[τείρειν]], [[verse|V.]] [[γυμνάζειν]].

[[be worn out]], of [[clothes]]: [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[κατατρίβεσθαι]].

Met., [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[τρύχεσθαι]], [[πιέζεσθαι]], [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[τείρεσθαι]], [[verse|V.]] [[καταξαίνεσθαι]]; see [[waste away]].

[[flag]], [[faint]]: [[prose|P.]] [[ἀπαγορεύειν]], [[παραλύεσθαι]], [[ἀποκάμνειν]], [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[ταλαιπωρεῖσθαι]], [[κατατρίβεσθαι]], [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ἀπειπεῖν]], [[κάμνειν]] (rare [[prose|P.]]); see [[flag]].
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