wear away

Verb

 * 1) To erode gradually and progressively.
 * 2) * 1925-29, (translator),, , Part I, chapter xvii:
 * 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.
 * 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.

Translations

 * Finnish: hivuttaa
 * Galician: rafar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 擦り減る,
 * Latin: terō
 * Romagnol: limêr