Verb wear away has 3 senses
  1. whittle away, whittle down, wear away - cut away in small pieces
    --1 is one way to damage
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  2. wear away, wear off - diminish, as by friction; "Erosion wore away the surface"
    --2 is one way to remove, take, take away, withdraw
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s something
  3. erode, gnaw, gnaw at, eat at, wear away - become ground down or deteriorate; "Her confidence eroded"
    --3 is one way to decay, crumble, delapidate
    Derived form: noun wearing away1
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s
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