Erosion: wearing away of the land, usually by the action of natural forces.
Erosion, caused by acidic substances, is a wearing away of the enamel coating of teeth.
The forces of global integration are a great tide inexorably wearing away the established order of things.
Corrosion: wearing away of material especially by chemical action.
"There's definitely a movement away from wearing a team kit, " said DL Byron, publisher of a website called Bike Hugger.
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You can only get away with wearing that dress so often but you can wear a great bag or coat every day.
One always knows with a tomboy: She is wearing shoes she can run away in.
When you re done wearing them, throw them away for recycling.
They both appeared to be wearing half their wardrobes to keep away the dreaded cold.
He was wearing Real Madrid's blue away shirt, Zidane's last club.
Its members were seen waltzing the night away, the men all wearing the party's trademark red-and-white ties.
And you could see Stan coming from about a mile away, because he was wearing that bright red blazer.
They could be told to only let their dog out in public wearing a muzzle, or to keep the dog away from certain parks and roads.
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What was interesting was that even though I could still hear most office sounds (like the phone ringing) through the ear defenders, the very act of wearing them gave off a subtle 'go-away-I'm-working' vibe that allowed others to ignore and exclude me without being impolite ... it worked for me!
Crouched next to two of his colleagues, their leader, Doron Kempel, watched a man wearing a khaki uniform and a red beret 300 yards away.
In last week's Barbershop, we mentioned some talk making the rounds, mostly on emails, about whether or not you could be turned away from the polls if you show up wearing buttons of T-shirts promoting a particular candidate.
At polling stations KDP people wearing the Kurds' traditional baggy trousers and embroidered sashes danced away, while behind the scenes their colleagues are said to have stuffed ballot boxes.
Sure the Net's not going away but investors and consumers no longer approach Web commerce wearing the hyperbole-gilded, rose-colored glasses of years past.
They now charge that moments before the gunfire, Mr. Hemphill wearing a bright blue sweater had been in a fistfight a block away from the shooting scene.
His basic guidelines: Wash or dry clean all your clothes before you store them away in a separate closet from the in-season clothes you're wearing now.
They walk away with the packaged toy in hand, the mother looking bewildered, the child wearing a grin of triumph.
The practice of wearing a jacket and trousers of matching material made by the same firm was still some years away.
Trucks rolled into the stadium plastered with giant photos of supermodels, pulled away to reveal nine supermodels, including Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell and Stella Tennant, wearing clothing by British designers.
Located 20 minutes away from the beach, it is a wild paradise for 20-something, flip-flop wearing Australian and Turkish youth and their version of fun.
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