Desgastar in english

Wear away

pronunciation: werəweɪ part of speech: verb
In gestures

desgastarse = wear off. 

Example: We're all familiar with the idea of novelty value and how it wears off with time.

desgastar = wear out ; eat away at ; wear away ; wear ; wear down ; grind away at. 

Example: What we really want is a product that wears out from use over a reasonable amount of time.Example: Rather than catalog departments going out of business, they could turn their attention once again to cataloging special local materials, eating away at store-rooms of uncataloged materials, and making their collections as a whole more responsive to their local constituency.Example: Now that you notice your teeth are wearing away, make an apointment to have them looked at because they won't get any better.Example: One of my front tyres has worn on one side and needs to be replaced.Example: Chronic tooth grinding, called bruxism, can cause micro-cracks in the enamel, making teeth more susceptible to decay, and even wear down the pointed surfaces of molars.Example: He looked sick, really sick, like he had the mother of all headaches grinding away at the inside of his skull.

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» desgastarsewear off .

Example: We're all familiar with the idea of novelty value and how it wears off with time.

» no desgastarse fácilmentewear + well .

Example: Printing types were cast in an alloy of lead, antimony, and tin called type-metal which was hard enough to wear well yet had a low melting point.

» sin desgastarunworn .

Example: A printer who wanted to achieve a sharp impression from unworn type of even height to paper would put hard rather than soft packing in the tympan.
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