wear

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verb transitive

Of clothes, weapons, etc.: P. and V. φορεῖν, ἔχειν.

wear arms: (absol.) P. σιδηροφορεῖν (or mid.).

wear out: P. and V. τρίβειν, Ar. and P. κατατρίβειν.

Met.; see weary.

worn by chariot wheels: V. ἐπημαξευμένος τροχοῖσι (Sophocles, Antigone 251); see beaten.

wear away: P. and V. τρίβειν. Ar. and P. κατατρίβειν.

verb intransitive

last: P. and V. ἀντέχειν; see last.

wear away: P. and V. τρίβεσθαι. Ar. and P. κατατρίβεσθαι.

wear off, pass away: P. and V. ἀπορρεῖν, διαρρεῖν; see fade.

wear out (clothes): Ar. and P. κατατρίβειν.

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

be worn out, of clothes: Ar. and P. κατατρίβεσθαι.

Met., P. and V. τρύχεσθαι, πιέζεσθαι, Ar. and V. τείρεσθαι, V. καταξαίνεσθαι; see waste away.

flag, faint: P. ἀπαγορεύειν, παραλύεσθαι, ἀποκάμνειν, Ar. and P. ταλαιπωρεῖσθαι, κατατρίβεσθαι, P. and V. ἀπειπεῖν, κάμνειν (rare P.); see flag.